CVE-2017-9229

high

Published 2017-05-24 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

7.5

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.5

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

83%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`6.1.3-2`
sid	Fixed	`6.1.3-2`
forky	Fixed	`6.1.3-2`
bullseye	Fixed	`6.1.3-2`
bookworm	Fixed	`6.1.3-2`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
oniguruma_project	oniguruma	`6.2.0`
php	php	`{"endIncluding":"7.1.5"}`
ruby-lang	ruby	`{"endIncluding":"2.4.1"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-476

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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