CVE-2017-16516
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/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
- Related
- Published
- 2017-11-03T15:29:00.233Z
- Modified
- 2025-11-14T05:06:16.216979Z
- 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
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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.
- References
Affected packages
Git / github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby
- Events
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Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedLast affected
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