VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-16229

CVSS score5.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.97%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-02-26
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read

Primary references