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vulnerabilityCVE-2017-16516
Name
CVE-2017-16516
Source
NVD ( link)Debian ( link)
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.
Published Date
Updated Date
Workaround
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Analysis#


Affected Component
Analysis
yajl
Patched
yajl
Patched

Vulnerability Ratings#


7.5
CVSSv31
5
CVSSv2

Others affected components#


Name
Project
Project Version
Version
Status
buildroot
2025.02.x
2.1.0
Not Affected
buildroot
master
2.1.0
Not Affected
openwrt
master
2.1.0-r4
Not Affected
openwrt
openwrt-25.12
2.1.0-r4
Not Affected
yocto
kirkstone
1.0.12
Not Affected
yocto
scarthgap
1.0.12
Patched

Resolved with patches#


yajl (yocto:master)

#
Title
Author
Resolve
1
Fix for CVE-2017-16516
=?UTF-8?q?Daniel=20P=2E=20Berrang=C3=A9?= <berrange@redhat.com>
CVE-2017-16516

yajl (yocto:master)

#
Title
Author
Resolve
1
Fix for CVE-2017-16516
=?UTF-8?q?Daniel=20P=2E=20Berrang=C3=A9?= <berrange@redhat.com>
CVE-2017-16516

yajl (yocto:scarthgap)

#
Title
Author
Resolve
1
Fix for CVE-2017-16516
=?UTF-8?q?Daniel=20P=2E=20Berrang=C3=A9?= <berrange@redhat.com>
CVE-2017-16516

yajl (yocto:scarthgap)

#
Title
Author
Resolve
1
Fix for CVE-2017-16516
=?UTF-8?q?Daniel=20P=2E=20Berrang=C3=A9?= <berrange@redhat.com>
CVE-2017-16516