CVE-2017-9227

9.8 CRITICAL
Published: May 24, 2017 Modified: May 13, 2026
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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 mbc_enc_len() during regular expression searching. Invalid handling of reg->dmin in forward_search_range() could result in an invalid pointer dereference, as an out-of-bounds read from a stack buffer.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0
Vector String
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100538
Source: cve@mitre.org
Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1296
Source: cve@mitre.org
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/kkos/oniguruma/issues/58
Source: cve@mitre.org
Exploit Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100538
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1296
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/kkos/oniguruma/commit/9690d3ab1f9bcd2db8cbe1fe3ee4a5da606b8814
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Patch Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/kkos/oniguruma/issues/58
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Exploit Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory

8 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
9.8 / 10.0
EPSS (Exploit Probability)
6.3%
93th percentile
Exploitation Status
Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

Affected Vendors

php oniguruma_project