---
gem: ox
cve: 2017-16229
url: https://github.com/ohler55/ox/issues/195
date: 2017-10-29
title: ox ruby gem stack overflow in sax_parse
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.

cvss_v3: 5.5
cvss_v2: 4.3

patched_versions:
  - ">= 2.8.2"