Bug 1218038 (CVE-2023-50268)

Summary:	VUL-0: CVE-2023-50268: jq: stack-based buffer overflow in builds using decNumber
Product:	[Novell Products] SUSE Security Incidents	Reporter:	SMASH SMASH <smash_bz>
Component:	Incidents	Assignee:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P3 - Medium	CC:	stoyan.manolov
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/387954/
Whiteboard:	CVSSv3.1:SUSE:CVE-2023-50268:6.2:(AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Found By:	Security Response Team	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description SMASH SMASH 2023-12-14 07:34:47 UTC

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.

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2023-50268
https://github.com/jqlang/jq/security/advisories/GHSA-7hmr-442f-qc8j
https://github.com/jqlang/jq/pull/2804
https://github.com/jqlang/jq/commit/c9a51565214eece8f1053089739aea73145bfd6b