Red Hat Security Advisory: jq security update
Red Hat has issued a security advisory for jq, a command-line JSON processor, addressing two vulnerabilities: a signed integer overflow (CVE-2024-23337) and a stack-buffer-overflow detected by AddressSanitizer (CVE-2025-48060). These vulnerabilities affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 and related CodeReady Linux Builder products. The update is rated as having moderate security impact. Red Hat provides updated packages to remediate these issues.
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
The security advisory covers two vulnerabilities in jq: CVE-2024-23337, a signed integer overflow in the function jvp_array_write within jv.c, and CVE-2025-48060, a stack-buffer-overflow identified by AddressSanitizer in jq_fuzz_execute (jv_string_vfmt). Both issues could lead to memory corruption. The advisory applies to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 and associated CodeReady Linux Builder versions. Red Hat has released updated jq packages to fix these vulnerabilities as detailed in advisory RHSA-2025:12882.
Potential Impact
The vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to cause memory corruption through integer overflow or buffer overflow conditions when processing JSON data with jq. This may lead to application crashes or potentially other undefined behaviors. The security impact is rated as moderate by Red Hat. There are no known exploits in the wild at this time.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released updated jq packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 and related CodeReady Linux Builder products that address these vulnerabilities. Users should apply the updates as described in Red Hat advisory RHSA-2025:12882 and the referenced article https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 to remediate the issues. No additional mitigation steps are indicated by the vendor.
Red Hat Security Advisory: jq security update
Description
Red Hat has issued a security advisory for jq, a command-line JSON processor, addressing two vulnerabilities: a signed integer overflow (CVE-2024-23337) and a stack-buffer-overflow detected by AddressSanitizer (CVE-2025-48060). These vulnerabilities affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 and related CodeReady Linux Builder products. The update is rated as having moderate security impact. Red Hat provides updated packages to remediate these issues.
Affected software
AI-Powered Analysis
Machine-generated threat intelligence
Technical Analysis
The security advisory covers two vulnerabilities in jq: CVE-2024-23337, a signed integer overflow in the function jvp_array_write within jv.c, and CVE-2025-48060, a stack-buffer-overflow identified by AddressSanitizer in jq_fuzz_execute (jv_string_vfmt). Both issues could lead to memory corruption. The advisory applies to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 and associated CodeReady Linux Builder versions. Red Hat has released updated jq packages to fix these vulnerabilities as detailed in advisory RHSA-2025:12882.
Potential Impact
The vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to cause memory corruption through integer overflow or buffer overflow conditions when processing JSON data with jq. This may lead to application crashes or potentially other undefined behaviors. The security impact is rated as moderate by Red Hat. There are no known exploits in the wild at this time.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released updated jq packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 and related CodeReady Linux Builder products that address these vulnerabilities. Users should apply the updates as described in Red Hat advisory RHSA-2025:12882 and the referenced article https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 to remediate the issues. No additional mitigation steps are indicated by the vendor.
Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Csaf Category
- csaf_security_advisory
- Csaf Version
- 2.0
- Publisher
- Red Hat Product Security
- Advisory Id
- RHSA-2025:12882
- Cve Count
- 2
- Additional Cves
- ["CVE-2025-48060"]
Threat ID: 6a1f4e89e29bf47b50082bd5
Added to database: 06/02/2026, 21:43:37 UTC
Last enriched: 08/21/2026, 16:09:51 UTC
Last updated: 09/10/2026, 19:36:47 UTC
Views: 73
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