ADVISORIES

• CVE-2017-15928 (NVD)
• GHSA-pjj4-w39g-pw54
• Vendor Advisory

GEM

ox

SEVERITY

CVSS v3.x: 7.5 (High)

CVSS v2.0: 5.0 (Medium)

PATCHED VERSIONS

• >= 2.8.1

DESCRIPTION

In the Ox gem 2.8.0 for Ruby, the process crashes with a segmentation fault when a crafted input is supplied to parse_obj. NOTE: the vendor has stated "Ox should handle the error more gracefully" but has not confirmed a security implication.