{
"id": "GHSA-wwh7-4jw9-33x6",
"aliases": [
"CVE-2017-16516"
],
"details": "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.",
"summary": "yajl-ruby gem Denial of Service vulnerability",
"affected": [
{
"ranges": [
{
"type": "ECOSYSTEM",
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "1.3.1"
}
]
}
],
"package": {
"name": "yajl-ruby",
"ecosystem": "RubyGems"
}
}
],
"modified": "2023-08-29T16:04:20Z",
"severity": [
{
"type": "CVSS_V3",
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
}
],
"published": "2017-11-28T22:44:42Z",
"references": [
{
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16516",
"type": "ADVISORY"
},
{
"url": "https://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby/issues/176",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "https://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby/pull/178",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "https://github.com/github/advisory-database/pull/2158",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "https://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby/commit/a8ca8f476655adaa187eedc60bdc770fff3c51ce",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "https://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby",
"type": "PACKAGE"
},
{
"url": "https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/yajl-ruby/CVE-2017-16516.yml",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00010.html",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/07/msg00013.html",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00003.html",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "https://rubygems.org/gems/yajl-ruby",
"type": "WEB"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-134"
],
"severity": "HIGH",
"github_reviewed": true,
"nvd_published_at": "2017-11-03T15:29:00Z",
"github_reviewed_at": "2020-06-16T22:01:25Z"
}
}