CVE-2017-16516

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 yajlstringdecode function in yajl_encode.c. This results in the whole ruby process terminating and potentially a denial of service.

Database specific

{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "7.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "7.0"
                }
            ],
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux",
            "source": "CPE_STRING"
        }
    ]
}

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby

Events

Introduced

35cf1c23efbf946785d3210b610783fedde51321

Last affected

35cf1c23efbf946785d3210b610783fedde51321

Database specific

{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:yajl-ruby_project:yajl-ruby:1.3.0:*:*:*:*:ruby:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "1.3.0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.3.0"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_STRING"
}

Affected versions

1.*

1.3.0

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-16516.json"