cve/2017/CVE-2017-16516.md

CVE-2017-16516

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.

POC

Reference

• https://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby/issues/176

Github

• https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon