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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2017-9229): PHP vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
May 24, 2017
Added
Aug 10, 2017
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

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 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.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-libapache2-mod-php5ubuntu-upgrade-libapache2-mod-php7-0ubuntu-upgrade-php5ubuntu-upgrade-php5-cgiubuntu-upgrade-php5-cliubuntu-upgrade-php5-fpmubuntu-upgrade-php7-0-cgiubuntu-upgrade-php7-0-cliubuntu-upgrade-php7-0-fpm
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