{"id":"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.","aliases":["GHSA-wwh7-4jw9-33x6"],"modified":"2026-07-08T05:50:21.700995975Z","published":"2017-11-03T15:29:00.233Z","database_specific":{"unresolved_ranges":[{"vendor_product":"debian:debian_linux","cpes":["cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"],"extracted_events":[{"introduced":"7.0"},{"last_affected":"7.0"}],"source":"CPE_STRING"}]},"references":[{"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":"ADVISORY","url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00010.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://rubygems.org/gems/yajl-ruby"},{"type":"EVIDENCE","url":"https://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby/issues/176"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby","events":[{"introduced":"35cf1c23efbf946785d3210b610783fedde51321"},{"last_affected":"35cf1c23efbf946785d3210b610783fedde51321"}],"database_specific":{"source":"CPE_STRING","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"}]}}],"versions":["1.3.0"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-16516.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}