Out-of-bounds Read Affecting ruby-ox package, versions <2.8.2-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (29th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-RUBYOX-283814
  • published26 Feb 2018
  • disclosed26 Feb 2018

Introduced: 26 Feb 2018

CVE-2017-16229  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable ruby-ox to version 2.8.2-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ruby-ox package and not the ruby-ox package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

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.