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
Link | Resource |
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https://rubygems.org/gems/yajl-ruby | Third Party Advisory |
https://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby/issues/176 | Exploit Third Party Advisory |
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00010.html | Third Party Advisory |
Information
Published : 2017-11-03 08:29
Updated : 2020-03-10 06:10
NVD link : CVE-2017-16516
Mitre link : CVE-2017-16516
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CWE
CWE-134
Use of Externally-Controlled Format String
Products Affected
debian
- debian_linux
yajl-ruby_project
- yajl-ruby