MGASA-2017-0415 Updated jq packages fix security vulnerabilities

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in jq's 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. Stack exhaustion could affect...

USN-3479-1 postgresql-9.3, postgresql-9.5, postgresql-9.6 vulnerabilities

David Rowley discovered that PostgreSQL incorrectly handled memory when processing certain JSON functions. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. CVE-2017-15098 Dean Rasheed discovered that PostgreSQL incorrectly enforced SELECT privileges when processing...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-5256

Node.js 0.8 before 0.8.28 and 0.10 before 0.10.30 does not consider the possibility of recursive processing that triggers V8 garbage collection in conjunction with a V8 interrupt, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory corruption and application crash via deep JSON...