Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published May 24, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-9228
CVE-2017-9228
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 heap out-of-bounds write occurs in bitset_set_range() during regular expression compilation due to an uninitialized variable from an incorrect state transition. An incorrect state transition in parse_char_class() could create an execution path that leaves a critical local variable uninitialized until it's used as an index, resulting in an out-of-bounds write memory corruption.
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Affected products
32- cpe:2.3:a:oniguruma_project:oniguruma:6.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- osv-coords30 versionspkg:rpm/suse/php53&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2011%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/php53&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2011%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/php53&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2011%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/php5&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Web%20and%20Scripting%2012pkg:rpm/suse/php5&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/php5&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/php7&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Web%20and%20Scripting%2012pkg:rpm/suse/php7&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/php7&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/ruby2.1&distro=HPE%20Helion%20OpenStack%208pkg:rpm/suse/ruby2.1&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%205pkg:rpm/suse/ruby2.1&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2-BCLpkg:rpm/suse/ruby2.1&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/ruby2.1&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP3-BCLpkg:rpm/suse/ruby2.1&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/ruby2.1&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/ruby2.1&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/ruby2.1&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/ruby2.1&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/ruby2.1&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/ruby2.1&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/ruby2.1&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/ruby2.1&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/ruby2.1&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%207pkg:rpm/suse/ruby2.1&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%208pkg:rpm/suse/ruby2.1&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%20Crowbar%208pkg:rpm/suse/yast2-ruby-bindings&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2-BCLpkg:rpm/suse/yast2-ruby-bindings&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/yast2-ruby-bindings&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/yast2-ruby-bindings&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%207
< 5.3.17-112.10.1+ 29 more
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.17-112.10.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.17-112.10.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.17-112.10.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.5.14-109.13.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.5.14-109.13.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.5.14-109.13.1
- (no CPE)range: < 7.0.7-50.23.1
- (no CPE)range: < 7.0.7-50.23.1
- (no CPE)range: < 7.0.7-50.23.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.1.9-19.3.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.1.9-19.3.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.1.9-19.3.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.1.9-19.3.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.1.9-19.3.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.1.9-19.3.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.1.9-19.3.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.1.9-19.3.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.1.9-19.3.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.1.9-19.3.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.1.9-19.3.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.1.9-19.3.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.1.9-19.3.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.1.9-19.3.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.1.9-19.3.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.1.9-19.3.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.1.9-19.3.2
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.53-9.8.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.53-9.8.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.53-9.8.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.53-9.8.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
3- github.com/kkos/oniguruma/commit/3b63d12038c8d8fc278e81c942fa9bec7c704c8bnvdPatchThird Party Advisory
- github.com/kkos/oniguruma/issues/60nvdExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1296nvdThird Party Advisory
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