CVE-2017-16229
N/A
Published: February 26, 2018 at 10:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:09 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorOx
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1.0%
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.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Ox· Ox Projectrubygems
95%Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.
References (2)
x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/ohler55/ox/issues/195x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://rubygems.org/gems/ox/versions/2.8.1Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-125
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