CVE-2026-40612 jq: Stack overflow via unbounded recursion in jv_contains

jq is a command-line JSON processor. In 1.8.1 and earlier, jvcontains recurses into nested arrays/objects with no depth limit. With a sufficiently nested input structure built programmatically with reduce, since the JSON parser caps at depth 10000, the C stack is exhausted...

CVE-2026-40612 jq: Stack overflow via unbounded recursion in jv_contains

jq is a command-line JSON processor. In 1.8.1 and earlier, jvcontains recurses into nested arrays/objects with no depth limit. With a sufficiently nested input structure built programmatically with reduce, since the JSON parser caps at depth 10000, the C stack is exhausted...