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High DLA-1167-1 1 CVE

ruby-yajl - security update

Published Nov 8, 2017 · Updated Mar 9, 2026

Ecosystem: Debian

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Debian · 7 ruby-yajl 1.1.0-2+deb7u1

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.5
    CVE-2017-16516

    yajl-ruby gem Denial of Service vulnerability

    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 pote…

    r-cran-jsonlite yajl yajl ruby-yajl Debian Ubuntu RubyGems