cve-2017-16516
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-11-03 00:00
Modified
2024-08-05 20:27
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
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.
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