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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2017-16516): YAJL vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2017-16516): YAJL vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
11/03/2017
Created
07/19/2023
Added
07/19/2023
Modified
11/15/2024

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.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libyajl2

References

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