suse · CVE-2017-9228

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Priority: medium Published: 2021-05-30 13:57:05 UTC Updated: 2026-04-17 16:08:32 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2017-9228 severity moderate: SUSE including 327 source package names (apache2-mod_php5-5.2.14-0.7.30.111.11.1, apache2-mod_php5-5.5.14-109.13.1, …), 559 product×package rows across 60 product lines (HPE Helion OpenStack 8, Image SLES12-SP5-Azure-BYOS, … (60 product lines)): Fixed 425, Known Not Affected 134.

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 heap out-of-bounds write occurs in bitset_set_range() during regular expression compilation due to an uninitialized variable from an incorrect state transition. An incorrect state transition in parse_char_class() could create an execution path that leaves a critical local variable uninitialized until it's used as an index, resulting in an out-of-bounds write memory corruption.

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