CVE-2017-9224
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 match_at() during regular expression searching. A logical error involving order of validation and access in match_at() could result in an out-of-bounds read from a stack buffer.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 6.1.3-2 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 6.1.3-2 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 6.1.3-2 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 6.1.3-2 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 6.1.3-2 |
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101244
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1296
- https://github.com/kkos/oniguruma/commit/690313a061f7a4fa614ec5cc8368b4f2284e059b
- https://github.com/kkos/oniguruma/issues/57
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-9224.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-9224
CWEs
CWE-125
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
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