jq: Stack overflow via unbounded recursion in jv_contains

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-40612",
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  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "jq: Stack overflow via unbounded recursion in jv_contains",
    "summary": "jq is a command-line JSON processor. In 1.8.1 and earlier, jv_contains 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.",
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:22.930111564Z",
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      "references": [
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/40xxx/CVE-2026-40612.json",
        "https://github.com/jqlang/jq/security/advisories/GHSA-r7m6-x9c7-h69j",
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  "document_id": 489123,
  "published_at": "2026-05-11T17:16:25.453+00:00"
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