ADVISORIES

• CVE-2017-16229 (NVD)
• GHSA-wfwm-chj7-w59r
• Vendor Advisory

GEM

ox

SEVERITY

CVSS v3.x: 5.5 (Medium)

CVSS v2.0: 4.3 (Medium)

PATCHED VERSIONS

• >= 2.8.2

DESCRIPTION

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.