CVE-2017-16229: Ox Project Ox

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

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Published 2018-02-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.