Debian DLA-1167-1 : ruby-yajl security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 104464

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

A vulnerability was found in ruby-yajl, an interface to Yajl, a JSON stream-based parser library. 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 may result in a denial of service.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 1.1.0-2+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your ruby-yajl packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected ruby-yajl package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 104464

File Name: debian_DLA-1167.nasl

Version: 3.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 11/9/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ruby-yajl, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/8/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-16516

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