vLLM (`/v1/completions` guided decoding): Invalid `json_schema` kills the server

Impact

Invalid json_schema kills the server

Who can reach it

Unauthenticated network to an exposed serving port

What to do

Upgrade to 0.9.0+; single-request DoS against a shared serving tier

References

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