ADVISORIES

• CVE-2017-16516 (NVD)
• GHSA-wwh7-4jw9-33x6

GEM

yajl-ruby

SEVERITY

CVSS v3.x: 7.5 (High)

PATCHED VERSIONS

• >= 1.3.1

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.

RELATED

• https://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby/issues/176