CVE-2017-16516

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-16516
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-16516.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-16516
Aliases
Downstream
Published
2017-11-03T15:29:00.233Z
Modified
2026-05-18T05:49:44.268867524Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
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 yajlstringdecode function in yajl_encode.c. This results in the whole ruby process terminating and potentially a denial of service.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux",
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "7.0"
                }
            ],
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
35cf1c23efbf946785d3210b610783fedde51321
Database specific 
{
    "source": "CPE_FIELD",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.3.0"
        }
    ],
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:yajl-ruby_project:yajl-ruby:1.3.0:*:*:*:*:ruby:*:*"
}

Affected versions

0.*
0.1.0
0.2.0
0.2.1
0.3.0
0.3.1
0.3.2
0.3.3
0.3.4
0.4.0
0.4.1
0.4.2
0.4.3
0.4.4
0.4.5
0.4.6
0.4.7
0.4.8
0.4.9
0.5.0
0.5.1
0.5.10
0.5.11
0.5.12
0.5.2
0.5.3
0.5.4
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.*
1.0.0
1.1.0
1.2.0
1.2.1
1.3.0

Database specific

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