Stack-based Buffer Over-read Vulnerability in Ox Gem 2.8.1 for Ruby

CVE-2017-16229 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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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