vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2017-16229): ruby-ox vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 26, 2018
Added
Jun 26, 2025
Modified
Jun 26, 2025

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.

Solution

no-fix-ubuntu-package
Title
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