CVE-2017-16516

HIGH7.5EPSS 1.7%

burp - security update

Published: 11/28/2017Modified: 3/9/2026
Also known as:GHSA-wwh7-4jw9-33x6DEBIAN-CVE-2017-16516DEBIAN-CVE-2022-24795DLA-3516-1

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)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1HIGH7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References (12)