CVE-2017-9229

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Summary

CVECVE-2017-9229
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-05-24 15:29:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-20 01:37:25 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 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v3.1 7.5 HIGH from [email protected]

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Problem Types: CWE-476 | n/a

VersionSourceTypeScoreSeverityVector
3.1[email protected]Primary7.5HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
2.0[email protected]Primary5AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS v3.1 Breakdown

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
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

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
SIGSEGV in left_adjust_char_head() due to bad dereference · Issue #59 · kkos/oniguruma · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 access.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
fix #59 : access to invalid address by reg->dmax value · kkos/oniguruma@b690371 · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
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Legacy QID Mappings

  • 356443 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for oniguruma : ALAS2-2023-2311
  • 356771 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) : ALAS2-2023-2375
  • 356983 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for oniguruma : AL2012-2023-467
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