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CVE-2017-9229

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Published: May 24, 2017Modified: May 13, 2026

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7.5
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 3.6
Source: NVD

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 (6)

Oniguruma Project
1 product
Oniguruma
Php
1 product
Php
Ruby Lang
1 product
Ruby
Configuration A
1 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Oniguruma
Version 6.2.0
Configuration B
2 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Php
Up to 7.1.5
Ruby
Up to 2.4.1
Configuration C
3 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Php
Php
From 5.6.0 to 5.6.31
Php
From 7.0.0 to 7.0.21
Php
From 7.1.0 to 7.1.7

Related CWEs

CWE-476
NULL Pointer Dereference
The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

References (6)

Source: cve@mitre.org
Third Party Advisory
Source: cve@mitre.org
PatchThird Party Advisory
Source: cve@mitre.org
ExploitThird Party Advisory
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
PatchThird Party Advisory
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
ExploitThird Party Advisory

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