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High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published May 24, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026

CVE-2017-9229

CVE-2017-9229

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 products

4
  • Oniguruma Project/Oniguruma
    cpe:2.3:a:oniguruma_project:oniguruma:6.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • PHP/PHP2 versions
    cpe:2.3:a:php:php:*:*:*:*:*:oniguruma-mod:*:*+ 1 more
    • cpe:2.3:a:php:php:*:*:*:*:*:oniguruma-mod:*:*range: <=7.1.5
    • cpe:2.3:a:php:php:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=5.6.0,<5.6.31
  • Ruby Lang/Ruby
    cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:*:*:*:*:*:oniguruma-mod:*:*
    Range: <=2.4.1

Patches

0

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

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