Photon OS 5.0: Jq PHSA-2026-5.0-0827

An update of the jq package has been released. %NASLMINLEVEL 80900 C Tenable, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2026-5.0-0827. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid307869...

CVE-2026-33947

Vulnerability summary (CVE-2026-33947) : In jq ≤ 1.8.1, functions jv_setpath(), jv_getpath(), and delpaths_sorted() in src/jv_aux.c perform unbounded recursion whose depth is driven by a caller-supplied path array. A crafted JSON input (flat array ~65,000 integers, ~200 KB) used as a path argumen...