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.
                
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 MITRE
                        MITRE
                    Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2017-05-24T15:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-05T17:02:44.157Z
Reserved: 2017-05-24T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2017-9229
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 NVD
                        NVD
                    Status : Deferred
Published: 2017-05-24T15:29:00.417
Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860
Link: CVE-2017-9229
 Redhat
                        Redhat