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CVE-2017-9229

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 5.13% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2017-05-24 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2017-9229
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
5.13%

Original NVD 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.

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