650884 – dev-ruby/ox: Denial of Service vulnerability via stack-based buffer over-read

Bug 650884 - dev-ruby/ox: Denial of Service vulnerability via stack-based buffer over-read

Summary: dev-ruby/ox: Denial of Service vulnerability via stack-based buffer over-read

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Security
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal minor (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Security

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Whiteboard:	B3 [noglsa cve]
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Reported:	2018-03-19 14:45 UTC by GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot
Modified:	2018-03-19 16:56 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev

2018-03-19 14:45:50 UTC

CVE-2017-16229 (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/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.


@Maintainers 2.8.2 is in tree, please call for stabilization when ready.

Thank you

Comment 1 Hans de Graaff gentoo-dev

2018-03-19 16:45:43 UTC

amd64 stable

Comment 2 Hans de Graaff gentoo-dev

2018-03-19 16:47:25 UTC

cleanup done

Comment 3 Mikle Kolyada (RETIRED) archtester

2018-03-19 16:55:35 UTC

GLSA vote: no.