{"id":"GHSA-wwh7-4jw9-33x6","summary":"yajl-ruby gem Denial of Service vulnerability","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":["CVE-2017-16516"],"modified":"2024-02-16T08:18:26.151930Z","published":"2017-11-28T22:44:42Z","database_specific":{"github_reviewed_at":"2020-06-16T22:01:25Z","github_reviewed":true,"nvd_published_at":"2017-11-03T15:29:00Z","severity":"HIGH","cwe_ids":["CWE-134"]},"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16516"},{"type":"WEB","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":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby"},{"type":"WEB","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"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"yajl-ruby","ecosystem":"RubyGems","purl":"pkg:gem/yajl-ruby"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.3.1"}]}],"versions":["0.5.10","0.5.11","0.5.12","0.5.5","0.5.6","0.5.7","0.5.8","0.5.9","0.6.0","0.6.1","0.6.2","0.6.3","0.6.4","0.6.5","0.6.6","0.6.7","0.6.8","0.6.9","0.7.0","0.7.1","0.7.2","0.7.3","0.7.4","0.7.5","0.7.6","0.7.7","0.7.8","0.7.9","0.8.0","0.8.1","0.8.2","0.8.3","1.0.0","1.1.0","1.2.0","1.2.1","1.2.2","1.2.3","1.3.0"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2017/11/GHSA-wwh7-4jw9-33x6/GHSA-wwh7-4jw9-33x6.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}