The jv_dump_term function in jq 1.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and application crash) via a crafted JSON file. This issue has been fixed in jq 1.6_rc1-r0.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - jq: stack exhaustion via jv_dump_term() function (CVE-2016-4074)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

This plugin has been deprecated as it does not adhere to established standards for this style of check.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4787-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that jq did not perform sufficient bounds checking, resulting in unbounded resource     consumption. An attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

This update for jq fixes the following minor security issue :

  - CVE-2016-4074: stack exhaustion could affect     availability when parsing untrusted imput (bsc#1014176)

The following tracked packaging changes are included :

  - Update tests dependencies to increase test coverage     (bsc#1017157)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
199244	RHEL 8 : jq (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
196384	RHEL 8 : jq (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
183582	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : jq vulnerability (USN-4787-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
104115	openSUSE Security Update : jq (openSUSE-2017-1190)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high

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