ox ruby gem stack overflow in sax_parse
Published: October 29, 2017
SECURITY IDENTIFIERS
- CVE: CVE-2017-16229 (NVD)
- GHSA: GHSA-wfwm-chj7-w59r
- Vendor Advisory: https://github.com/ohler55/ox/issues/195
GEM
SEVERITY
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.