Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.bionic:def:20179228000
Revision Date:2017-05-24Version:1
Title:CVE-2017-9228 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic) - medium.
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.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2017-9228
Platform(s):Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
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Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic) is installed.
  • AND The 'libonig' package in bionic was vulnerable but has been fixed (note: '6.3.0-1').
  • BACK