| Name | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| ruby-ox (PTS) | bullseye | 2.11.0-2 | fixed |
| bookworm | 2.14.9-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 2.14.17-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| ruby-ox | source | (unstable) | 2.8.2-1 | | | |
Notes
[stretch] - ruby-ox <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[jessie] - ruby-ox <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/ohler55/ox/issues/195
https://github.com/ohler55/ox/pull/196
https://github.com/ohler55/ox/commit/0708ae44faf2ffc3d9330daf6ae023859a8b168b