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CVE-2017-16516
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-11-03T15:29:00.233 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:09:23.183

Summary

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 products

yajl-ruby_project — yajl-ruby

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