CVE-2017-16516
HIGH7.5EPSS 1.7%burp - security update
Published: 11/28/2017Modified: 3/9/2026
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.
Affected packages (8)
- Debian/burpfrom 0
- Debian/burpfrom 0, < 2.1.32-2+deb10u1
- Debian/r-cran-jsonlitefrom 0
- Debian/ruby-yajlfrom 0, < 1.1.0-2+deb7u1
- Debian/ruby-yajlfrom 0, < 1.2.0-3.1
- Debian/yajlfrom 0, < 2.1.0-3+deb10u2
- Debian/yajlfrom 0, < 2.1.0-3+deb11u2
- RubyGems/yajl-rubyfrom 0, < 1.3.1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
References (12)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16516
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-16516
- PATCHhttps://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby
- WEBhttps://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby/commit/a8ca8f476655adaa187eedc60bdc770fff3c51ce
- WEBhttps://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby/issues/176
- WEBhttps://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby/pull/178
- WEBhttps://github.com/github/advisory-database/pull/2158
- WEBhttps://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/yajl-ruby/CVE-2017-16516.yml
- WEBhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00010.html
- WEBhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/07/msg00013.html
- WEBhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00003.html
- WEBhttps://rubygems.org/gems/yajl-ruby