Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ruby-ox  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2004-RUBYOX-658588
  • 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)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.04.

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 Ubuntu.

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.