Security advisory

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  "id": "9e085dea774bcea189117e13f4c2b21d99ee8dced585aea90270ed2e28c76ae8",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-16516",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2017-16516",
    "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2017-16516",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2017-16516",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2017-16516",
        "GHSA-wwh7-4jw9-33x6"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "35cf1c23efbf946785d3210b610783fedde51321"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "35cf1c23efbf946785d3210b610783fedde51321"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:yajl-ruby_project:yajl-ruby:1.3.0:*:*:*:*:ruby:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "1.3.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "1.3.0"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "1.3.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-16516.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:49:51.025973032Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/07/msg00013.html",
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00003.html",
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00010.html",
        "https://rubygems.org/gems/yajl-ruby",
        "https://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby/issues/176"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "7.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "7.0"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2017-16516",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 380863,
  "published_at": "2017-11-03T15:29:00.233+00:00"
}