CVE-2017-9224

Summary

CVECVE-2017-9224
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-05-24 15:29:00 UTC
Updated2022-07-20 16:38:00 UTC
DescriptionAn 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 stack out-of-bounds read occurs in match_at() during regular expression searching. A logical error involving order of validation and access in match_at() could result in an out-of-bounds read from a stack buffer.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-125

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Oniguruma Project Oniguruma 6.2.0 All All All
Application Oniguruma Project Oniguruma 6.2.0 All All All
Application Php Php All All All All
Application Php Php All All All All
Application Ruby-lang Ruby All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
fix #57 : DATA_ENSURE() check must be before data access · kkos/oniguruma@690313a · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Buffer Overflow in match_at() · Issue #57 · kkos/oniguruma · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Oniguruma Multiple Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities BID www.securityfocus.com
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 355776 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for ruby : ALAS2-2023-2201
  • 355835 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for oniguruma : ALAS2-2023-2217
  • 356990 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for oniguruma : AL2012-2023-474
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