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CVE-2017-16516
high
Description
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.
References
https://rubygems.org/gems/yajl-ruby
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00003.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/07/msg00013.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00010.html