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.
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cve-icon 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

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-11-03T15:29:00.233

Modified: 2023-08-05T19:15:09.750


Link: CVE-2017-16516

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