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CVE-2017-9227 (GCVE-0-2017-9227)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-05-24 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 17:02
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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 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.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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Date Public
2017-05-24 00:00
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