NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting libonig package, versions <6.3.0-1
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1804-LIBONIG-282513
- published 24 May 2017
- disclosed 24 May 2017
Introduced: 24 May 2017
CVE-2017-9229 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:18.04
libonig
to version 6.3.0-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libonig
package and not the libonig
package as distributed by Ubuntu
.
See How to fix?
for Ubuntu:18.04
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.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-9229
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9229
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-9229
- https://github.com/kkos/oniguruma/commit/b690371bbf97794b4a1d3f295d4fb9a8b05d402d
- https://github.com/kkos/oniguruma/issues/59
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1296