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 stack out-of-bounds read occurs in mbc_enc_len() during regular expression searching. Invalid handling of reg->dmin in forward_search_range() could result in an invalid pointer dereference, as an out-of-bounds read from a stack buffer.
Published: 2017-05-24
Score: 9.8 Critical
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-958-1 libonig security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-18165 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 stack out-of-bounds read occurs in mbc_enc_len() during regular expression searching. Invalid handling of reg->dmin in forward_search_range() could result in an invalid pointer dereference, as an out-of-bounds read from a stack buffer.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3382-1 PHP vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3382-2 PHP vulnerabilities
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Oniguruma Project Oniguruma
Php Php
Redhat Rhel Software Collections
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T17:02:44.162Z

Reserved: 2017-05-24T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-9227

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Status : Modified

Published: 2017-05-24T15:29:00.323

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2017-9227

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Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2017-05-23T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-9227 - Bugzilla

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