CVE-2017-16516
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Nov 3, 2017
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2024
- Reserved
- Nov 3, 2017
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.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- https://rubygems.org/gems/yajl-ruby
- https://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby/issues/176
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