CVE-2017-16516
high
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS v4 NEW
—
VIR risk
7.5
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
—
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Debian Mixed 6 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 3.1.4-2 |
| sid | Fixed | 3.1.4-2 |
| forky | Fixed | 3.1.4-2 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 1.2.0-3.1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 0 |
| 7.0 | Affected | — |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| yajl-ruby_project | yajl-ruby | 1.3.0 | |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16516
- https://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby/issues/176
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00010.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/07/msg00013.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00003.html
- https://rubygems.org/gems/yajl-ruby
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-16516
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-16516.html
- https://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby/pull/178
- https://github.com/github/advisory-database/pull/2158
- https://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby/commit/a8ca8f476655adaa187eedc60bdc770fff3c51ce
- https://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/yajl-ruby/CVE-2017-16516.yml
CWEs
CWE-134
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.