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Oracle Linux 8 ELSA-2026-16252 jq Significant DoS Vulnerability Fixes

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Calendar Grey May 14, 2026
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Oracle Linux 8 security advisory ELSA-2026-16252 details important jq updates addressing DoS and read issues.
The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 8 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

Summary

[1.6-12] - Fix CVE-2026-40164 - Denial of Service via crafted JSON object causing hash collisions - Fix CVE-2026-39979 out-of-bounds read in jv_parse_sized() - Resolves: RHEL-168174 - Resolves: RHEL-168192

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service important Oracle out-of-bounds jq

SRPMs

http://oss.oracle.com/ol8/SRPMS-updates/jq-1.6-12.el8_10.src.rpm

x86_64

jq-1.6-12.el8_10.i686.rpm jq-1.6-12.el8_10.x86_64.rpm jq-devel-1.6-12.el8_10.i686.rpm jq-devel-1.6-12.el8_10.x86_64.rpm

aarch64

jq-1.6-12.el8_10.aarch64.rpm jq-devel-1.6-12.el8_10.aarch64.rpm

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Related CVEs: CVE-2026-39979 CVE-2026-40164

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security advisory denial of service important Oracle out-of-bounds jq

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