CVE-2017-16516

2017-11-0315:29:00

CWE-134

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CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS3

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS

0.01

Percentile

83.6%

JSON

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 configurations

Nvd

Node

yajl-ruby_projectyajl-rubyMatch1.3.0ruby

Node

debiandebian_linuxMatch7.0

VendorProductVersionCPE
yajl-ruby_projectyajl-ruby1.3.0cpe:2.3:a:yajl-ruby_project:yajl-ruby:1.3.0:*:*:*:*:ruby:*:*
debiandebian_linux7.0cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE
yajl-ruby_project	yajl-ruby	1.3.0	cpe:2.3:a:yajl-ruby_project:yajl-ruby:1.3.0:::::ruby::
debian	debian_linux	7.0	cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:::::::*