GHSA-wwh7-4jw9-33x6HighCVSS 7.5
yajl-ruby gem Denial of Service vulnerability
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 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 products1
- rubygems/yajl-ruby:< 1.3.1
🔗 References (11)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16516
- https://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby/issues/176
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00010.html
- https://rubygems.org/gems/yajl-ruby
- https://github.com/github/advisory-database/pull/2158
- https://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby/commit/a8ca8f476655adaa187eedc60bdc770fff3c51ce
- https://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby/pull/178
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/yajl-ruby/CVE-2017-16516.yml
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/07/msg00013.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00003.html
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wwh7-4jw9-33x6