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VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2017-9227

A stack out-of-bounds read occurs in mbc_enc_len() during regular expression searching.

CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 6.26%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (6.26%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

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.

CVSS 3.1
9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
6.26% probability · 93th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-125
Affected
oniguruma project/oniguruma · php/php
Source
cve@mitre.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.