Out-of-bounds read in PHP - CVE-2017-9224

 

Out-of-bounds read in PHP - CVE-2017-9224

Published: July 6, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU7345
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-9224
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information.

The weakness exists in the mbstring due to stack out-of-bounds read in match_at() during regular expression searching. A remote attacker can trigger a logical error involving order of validation and access in match_at() and read arbitrary files on the system.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in information disclosure.

Affected software

PHP
Amazon Linux AMI
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Fedora
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power
Slackware Linux
php5 (Ubuntu package)
php5 (Alpine package)
php (Alpine package)
php7 (Alpine package)
jq
ruby20
php
oniguruma

How to mitigate CVE-2017-9224

Update to version 7.0.21.

php5 (Ubuntu package) - update to 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.28
php5 (Alpine package) - addressed in versions 5.6.31-r0, 5.6.33-r0
php (Alpine package) - update to 5.6.31-r0
php7 (Alpine package) - update to 7.0.27-r0
jq - update to 1.6-2.el7
ruby20 - update to 2.0.0.648-2.42
php - addressed in versions 5.6.31-1.fc24, 7.0.21-1.fc25, 7.1.7-1.fc26
oniguruma - addressed in versions 5.9.6-4.fc24, 6.1.3-2.fc25, 6.1.3-3.fc25, 6.3.0-1.fc26, 6.8.2-1.el7

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