CVE-2017-9229
HIGH7.5EPSS 0.35%Published: 5/24/2017Modified: 11/19/2025
Also known as:ALPINE-CVE-2017-9229DEBIAN-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 packages (2)
- Alpine/php5from 0, < 5.6.31-r0
- Debian/libonigfrom 0, < 6.1.3-2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |