CVE-2017-16229

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    CVE-2017-16229

    Published: 26 Feb 2018Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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: https://rubygems.org/gems/ox/versions/2.8.1, https://github.com/ohler55/ox/issues/195

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- d8695646fa3e134bd76ba3bd33462f15ad31b230
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    2.8.1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    Integrity
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