# CVE-2017-9225: 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.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2017-05-24 · Updated: 2024-09-17

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## 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 stack out-of-bounds write in onigenc_unicode_get_case_fold_codes_by_str() occurs during regular expression compilation. Code point 0xFFFFFFFF is not properly handled in unicode_unfold_key(). A malformed regular expression could result in 4 bytes being written off the end of a stack buffer of expand_case_fold_string() during the call to onigenc_unicode_get_case_fold_codes_by_str(), a typical stack buffer overflow.

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## References

- https://github.com/kkos/oniguruma/commit/166a6c3999bf06b4de0ab4ce6b088a468cc4029f
- https://github.com/kkos/oniguruma/issues/56

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