Medium: jq

Issue Overview:

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the tokenadd() function. By tricking a victim into processing a specially crafted JSON file, an attacker could use this flaw to crash jq or, potentially, execute arbitrary code on the victim’s system. (CVE-2015-8863)

Affected Packages:

jq

Issue Correction:
Run yum update jq to update your system.

New Packages:

i686:  
    jq-libs-1.5-1.2.amzn1.i686  
    jq-1.5-1.2.amzn1.i686  
    jq-devel-1.5-1.2.amzn1.i686  
    jq-debuginfo-1.5-1.2.amzn1.i686  
  
src:  
    jq-1.5-1.2.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    jq-1.5-1.2.amzn1.x86_64  
    jq-devel-1.5-1.2.amzn1.x86_64  
    jq-debuginfo-1.5-1.2.amzn1.x86_64  
    jq-libs-1.5-1.2.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2015-8863

Mitre: CVE-2015-8863