Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2016-705)
🗓️ 26 Oct 2016 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone AGType
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| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 38 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security fix for the ALT Linux 8 package jq version 1.5-alt1.M80P.1 | 11 May 201700:00 | – | altlinux | |
| Medium: jq | 2 Jun 201600:00 | – | amazon | |
| Amazon Linux AMI : jq (ALAS-2016-705) | 6 Jun 201600:00 | – | nessus | |
| GLSA-201612-20 : jq: Buffer overflow | 8 Dec 201600:00 | – | nessus | |
| openSUSE Security Update : jq (openSUSE-2016-550) | 5 May 201600:00 | – | nessus | |
| openSUSE Security Update : jq (openSUSE-2016-551) | 5 May 201600:00 | – | nessus | |
| RHEL 7 : jq (RHSA-2016:1098) | 15 Apr 202500:00 | – | nessus | |
| jq: arbitrary code execution | 10 Aug 201600:00 | – | archlinux | |
| CVE-2015-8863 affecting package jq 1.5-6 | 9 Sep 202006:09 | – | cbl_mariner | |
| CVE-2015-8863 affecting package jq for versions less than 1.5-6 | 9 Apr 202206:51 | – | cbl_mariner |
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| Source | Link |
|---|---|
| alas | www.alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2016-705.html |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.120694");
script_cve_id("CVE-2015-8863");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2016-10-26 12:38:10 +0000 (Wed, 26 Oct 2016)");
script_version("2025-01-23T05:37:39+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-01-23 05:37:39 +0000 (Thu, 23 Jan 2025)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"10.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2018-10-30 16:27:00 +0000 (Tue, 30 Oct 2018)");
script_name("Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2016-705)");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Amazon Linux Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/amazon_linux", "ssh/login/release");
script_xref(name:"Advisory-ID", value:"ALAS-2016-705");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2016-705.html");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update for the 'jq' package(s) announced via the ALAS-2016-705 advisory.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"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)");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"'jq' package(s) on Amazon Linux.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Please install the updated package(s).");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
exit(0);
}
include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-rpm.inc");
release = rpm_get_ssh_release();
if(!release)
exit(0);
res = "";
report = "";
if(release == "AMAZON") {
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"jq", rpm:"jq~1.5~1.2.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"jq-debuginfo", rpm:"jq-debuginfo~1.5~1.2.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"jq-devel", rpm:"jq-devel~1.5~1.2.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"jq-libs", rpm:"jq-libs~1.5~1.2.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
report += res;
}
if(report != "") {
security_message(data:report);
} else if(__pkg_match) {
exit(99);
}
exit(0);
}
exit(0);
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