ohler55/ox · Security

Ox gem stack overflow in sax_parse

GHSA ID
GHSA-wfwm-chj7-w59r
CVE ID
CVE-2017-16229
Severity
medium
Published
Updated
CVSS
5.5 · CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v3
5.5 · CVSS: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.

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