NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting php70-recode package, versions <0:7.0.21-1.23.amzn1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.3% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN201803-PHP70RECODE-1707146
  • published27 Sept 2021
  • disclosed24 May 2017

Introduced: 24 May 2017

CVE-2017-9229  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2018.03 php70-recode to version 0:7.0.21-1.23.amzn1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS-2017-867.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream php70-recode package and not the php70-recode package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2018.03 relevant fixed versions and status.

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 Scores

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