Out-of-bounds Write Affecting php package, versions [,7.1.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.32% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PHP-2335686
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed24 May 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 May 2017

CVE-2017-9226  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade php to version 7.1.6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write. 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 heap out-of-bounds write or read occurs in next_state_val() during regular expression compilation. Octal numbers larger than 0xff are not handled correctly in fetch_token() and fetch_token_in_cc(). A malformed regular expression containing an octal number in the form of '\700' would produce an invalid code point value larger than 0xff in next_state_val(), resulting in an out-of-bounds write memory corruption.

CVSS Scores

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