cve/2017/CVE-2017-16229.md

### [CVE-2017-16229](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-16229)
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### 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.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://github.com/ohler55/ox/issues/195

#### Github
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