CVE-2023-50268

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-50268
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-50268.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-50268
Aliases
  • GHSA-7hmr-442f-qc8j
Downstream
Related
Published
2023-12-13T20:49:54.982Z
Modified
2026-07-15T15:53:48.515695Z
Severity
  • 6.2 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
jq has stack-based buffer overflow in decNaNs
Details

jq is a command-line JSON processor. Version 1.7 is vulnerable to stack-based buffer overflow in builds using decNumber. Version 1.7.1 contains a patch for this issue.

Database specific 
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        "CWE-121"
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References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/jqlang/jq

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/jqlang/jq
Events
Introduced
11c528d04d76c9b9553781aa76b073e4f40da008
Fixed
c9a51565214eece8f1053089739aea73145bfd6b
Database specific 
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}

Affected versions

1.*
1.7
= 1.*
= 1.7
jq-1.*
jq-1.7

Database specific

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