GHSA-wwh7-4jw9-33x6

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    GHSA-wwh7-4jw9-33x6

    Published: 28 Nov 2017Last Modified: 16 Feb 2024

    Summary: yajl-ruby gem Denial of Service vulnerability

    Details: 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.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16516, https://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby/issues/176, https://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby/pull/178, https://github.com/github/advisory-database/pull/2158, https://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby/commit/a8ca8f476655adaa187eedc60bdc770fff3c51ce, https://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby, https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/yajl-ruby/CVE-2017-16516.yml, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00010.html, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/07/msg00013.html, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00003.html, https://rubygems.org/gems/yajl-ruby

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: yajl-ruby

    Purl: pkg:gem/yajl-ruby

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.3.1

    Affected versions

    0.5.10
    0.5.11
    0.5.12
    0.5.5
    0.5.6
    0.5.7
    0.5.8
    0.5.9

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High