{"id":"CVE-2017-16516","aliases":["GHSA-wwh7-4jw9-33x6"],"url":"https://o3.security/vulnerability/CVE-2017-16516","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.","published":"2017-11-03T15:29:00.233Z","modified":"2026-07-08T05:50:21.700995975Z","cvss":{"score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"epss":null,"cisaKev":null,"exploitsKnown":1,"affectedPackages":[{"ecosystem":"RubyGems","name":"yajl-ruby","fixedVersion":"1.3.1"}],"fix":{"url":"https://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby/pull/178","label":"brianmario/yajl-ruby#178"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/07/msg00013.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00003.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00010.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://rubygems.org/gems/yajl-ruby"},{"type":"EVIDENCE","url":"https://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby/issues/176"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16516"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby/pull/178"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/pull/2158"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby/commit/a8ca8f476655adaa187eedc60bdc770fff3c51ce"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/yajl-ruby/CVE-2017-16516.yml"}],"provenance":{"sources":["OSV.dev","FIRST.org (EPSS)"],"lastVerified":"2026-07-08T05:50:21.700995975Z"}}