CVE-2017-9229 — NULL Pointer Dereference in Ruby
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.6%
top 30.70%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedMay 24
Latest updateMay 14
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages3 packages
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
3📋Vendor Advisories
4💬Community
5Bugzilla▶
CVE-2017-9224 CVE-2017-9225 CVE-2017-9226 CVE-2017-9227 CVE-2017-9228 CVE-2017-9229 oniguruma: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2017-06-30
Bugzilla▶
CVE-2017-9224 CVE-2017-9225 CVE-2017-9226 CVE-2017-9227 CVE-2017-9228 CVE-2017-9229 php: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2017-06-30
Bugzilla▶
CVE-2017-9224 CVE-2017-9225 CVE-2017-9226 CVE-2017-9227 CVE-2017-9228 CVE-2017-9229 oniguruma: various flaws [epel-7]↗2017-06-30
Bugzilla▶
CVE-2017-9224 CVE-2017-9225 CVE-2017-9226 CVE-2017-9227 CVE-2017-9228 CVE-2017-9229 ruby: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2017-06-30