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.
References
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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 | |
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00003.html | |
https://rubygems.org/gems/yajl-ruby | Third Party Advisory |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2017-11-03T00:00:00
Updated: 2023-08-05T00:00:00
Reserved: 2017-11-03T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2017-16516
JSON object: View
NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 2017-11-03T15:29:00.233
Modified: 2023-08-05T19:15:09.750
Link: CVE-2017-16516
JSON object: View
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