CVE-2017-16229

MEDIUM

Ox gem 2.8.1 - Buffer Overflow

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://rubygems.org/gems/ox/versions/2.8.1
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/ohler55/ox/issues/195

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0016
EPSS Percentile 37.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-125
Status published
Products (2)
ox_project/ox 2.8.1
rubygems/ox 0 - 2.8.2RubyGems
Published Feb 26, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026