CVE-2017-16229

PoC —

CVSS 3.0

5.5 medium

EPSS

<1%p59

Published

Feb 26, 2018 (Feb 26, 2018)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

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.

Vendors: ox project
Products: ox
Weakness: CWE-125
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (1.0%)

In the news0 stories

No ingested article mentions this CVE yet.