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CVE-2017-9229
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-05-24T15:29:00.417 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:27:43.133

Summary

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 products

oniguruma_project — oniguruma

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