CVE-2025-48060

Publication date 22 May 2025

Last updated 22 May 2025


Ubuntu priority

jq is a command-line JSON processor. In versions up to and including 1.7.1, a heap-buffer-overflow is present in function `jv_string_vfmt` in the jq_fuzz_execute harness from oss-fuzz. This crash happens on file jv.c, line 1456 `void* p = malloc(sz);`. As of time of publication, no patched versions are available.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
jq 25.04 plucky
Vulnerable, fix deferred
24.10 oracular
Vulnerable, fix deferred
24.04 LTS noble
Vulnerable, fix deferred
22.04 LTS jammy
Vulnerable, fix deferred
20.04 LTS focal
Vulnerable, fix deferred
18.04 LTS bionic
Vulnerable, fix deferred
16.04 LTS xenial
Vulnerable, fix deferred
14.04 LTS trusty
Vulnerable, fix deferred

Notes


mdeslaur

as of 2025-05-22, there is no fix for this issue from upstream jq developers