CVE-2017-16229

In the Ox gem 2.8.1 for Ruby, the process crashes with a stack-based buffer over-read in the read_from_str function in sax_buf.c when a crafted input is supplied to sax_parse.

CVSS v3.0 NVD

5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2.0 NVD

4.3 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS

0.97% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 61st percentile

Published

2018-02-26

Updated

2024-08-05

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• ohler55/ox/issues/195912★ · 2026-09-23

Security advisories

• https://rubygems.org/gems/ox/versions/2.8.1
• advisories/GHSA-wfwm-chj7-w59r

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2017-15928