What is GHSA-wfwm-chj7-w59r?

GHSA-wfwm-chj7-w59r is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Medium severity. Ox gem stack overflow in sax_parse

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-wfwm-chj7-w59r cover?

GHSA-wfwm-chj7-w59r covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2017-16229. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-wfwm-chj7-w59r?

GHSA-wfwm-chj7-w59r has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.5, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

Which products are affected by GHSA-wfwm-chj7-w59r?

GHSA-wfwm-chj7-w59r affects 1 product, including: rubygems/ox:\u003c 2.8.2.

GHSA-wfwm-chj7-w59rMediumCVSS 5.5

Ox gem stack overflow in sax_parse

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

March 5, 2018

Last Modified

August 29, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2017-16229 →

📋 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.

🎯 Affected products1

rubygems/ox:< 2.8.2

🔗 References (5)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16229
https://github.com/ohler55/ox/issues/195
https://rubygems.org/gems/ox/versions/2.8.1
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/ox/CVE-2017-16229.yml
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wfwm-chj7-w59r