CVE-2017-9228

critical

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

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CVSS v3

9.8

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

9.8

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

97%

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

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`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
oniguruma_project	oniguruma	`6.2.0`
php	php	`{"startIncluding":"5.6.0","endExcluding":"5.6.31"}`	`5.6.31`

References

CWEs

CWE-787

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

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