CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-16516
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-11-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-134
Description
In the yajl-ruby gem 1.3.0 for Ruby, when a crafted JSON file is supplied to Yajl::Parser.new.parse, the whole ruby process crashes with a SIGABRT in the yajl_string_decode function in yajl_encode.c. This results in the whole ruby process terminating and potentially a denial of service.
Affected configurations
• yajl-ruby project yajl-ruby 1.3.0
• debian debian linux 7.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-134 Use of Externally-Controlled Format String weakness
References
- https://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby/issues/176 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00010.html Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/07/msg00013.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00003.html lists.debian.org
- https://rubygems.org/gems/yajl-ruby Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby/issues/176 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00010.html Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/07/msg00013.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00003.html lists.debian.org
- https://rubygems.org/gems/yajl-ruby Third Party Advisory