CVE-2017-16516
yajl-ruby gem Denial of Service vulnerability
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 1.7%
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.
How to fix CVE-2017-16516
To remediate CVE-2017-16516, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —no fix listed
- —upgrade to 2.1.32-2+deb10u1 or later
- —no fix listed
- —upgrade to 1.1.0-2+deb7u1 or later
- —upgrade to 1.2.0-3.1 or later
- —upgrade to 2.1.0-3+deb10u2 or later
- —upgrade to 2.1.0-3+deb11u2 or later
- —upgrade to 1.3.1 or later
Is CVE-2017-16516 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 1.7%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (8)
- from 0
- from 0, < 2.1.32-2+deb10u1
- from 0
- from 0, < 1.1.0-2+deb7u1
- from 0, < 1.2.0-3.1
- from 0, < 2.1.0-3+deb10u2
- from 0, < 2.1.0-3+deb11u2
- from 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 |