What is CVE-2017-16229?

CVE-2017-16229 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ox Project, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2018-02-26.

How severe is CVE-2017-16229?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Out-of-bounds Read in Ox Project

CVE-2017-16229

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.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.010 (58.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Ox_project Ox — versions 2.8.1
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read

References

cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-16229?: CVE-2017-16229 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ox Project, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2018-02-26.
How severe is CVE-2017-16229?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.