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EulerOS 2.0 SP12 : yajl (EulerOS-SA-2025-1608)

high Nessus Plugin ID 238179

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the versions of the yajl package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

 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.(CVE-2017-16516)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS yajl security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected yajl packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?59787e5a

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 238179

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2025-1608.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 6/11/2025

Updated: 6/11/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-16516

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:yajl, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/sp

Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/9/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/3/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-16516