CVE-2017-16229

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Summary

CVECVE-2017-16229
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-02-26 22:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-03 00:03:00 UTC
DescriptionIn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-125

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Ox Project Ox 2.8.1 All All All
Application Ox Project Ox 2.8.1 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
ox | RubyGems.org | your community gem host MISC rubygems.org Third Party Advisory
Stack buffer overflow in SAX parser · Issue #195 · ohler55/ox · GitHub MISC github.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
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