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Vulnerability details: VCID-16pv-5tpc-aaae
Vulnerability ID VCID-16pv-5tpc-aaae
Aliases CVE-2017-9229
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.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 6.8
Risk 3.4
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (2)
CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference
CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write
System Score Found at
generic_textual Medium http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2017/CVE-2017-9229.html
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rhbs medium https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1466746
generic_textual Medium https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9229
cvssv2 2.6 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv3 6.5 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv2 5.0 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9229
cvssv3 7.5 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9229
cvssv3.1 7.5 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9229
generic_textual Medium https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3382-1
generic_textual Medium https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3382-2
Reference id Reference type URL
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2017/CVE-2017-9229.html
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1296
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2017-9229.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-9229
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9229
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://github.com/kkos/oniguruma/commit/b690371bbf97794b4a1d3f295d4fb9a8b05d402d
https://github.com/kkos/oniguruma/issues/59
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3382-1
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3382-2
1466746 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1466746
863318 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=863318
cpe:2.3:a:oniguruma_project:oniguruma:6.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:oniguruma_project:oniguruma:6.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:php:php:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:*:*:*:*:*:oniguruma-mod:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:php:php:*:*:*:*:*:oniguruma-mod:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:*:*:*:*:*:oniguruma-mod:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:*:*:*:*:*:oniguruma-mod:*:*
CVE-2017-9229 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9229
USN-3382-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3382-1/
USN-3382-2 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3382-2/
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2017-9229.json
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9229
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9229
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9229
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.35231
EPSS Score 0.00139
Published At June 1, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
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