0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
28.7%
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.
read_from_str
sax_buf.c
sax_parse
github.com/ohler55/ox
github.com/ohler55/ox/issues/195
github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/ox/CVE-2017-16229.yml
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16229
rubygems.org/gems/ox/versions/2.8.1