CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-9229

7.5 HIGH Published 2017-05-24 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-05-24
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-476

Description

An issue was discovered in Oniguruma 6.2.0, as used in Oniguruma-mod in Ruby through 2.4.1 and mbstring in PHP through 7.1.5. A SIGSEGV occurs in left_adjust_char_head() during regular expression compilation. Invalid handling of reg->dmax in forward_search_range() could result in an invalid pointer dereference, normally as an immediate denial-of-service condition.

Affected configurations

• oniguruma project oniguruma 6.2.0 • php php (<= 7.1.5) • ruby-lang ruby (<= 2.4.1) • php php (>= 5.6.0 < 5.6.31) • php php (>= 7.0.0 < 7.0.21) • php php (>= 7.1.0 < 7.1.7)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References