Medium: oniguruma

Issue Overview:

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 read occurs in match_at() during regular expression searching. A logical error involving order of validation and access in match_at() could result in an out-of-bounds read from a stack buffer. (CVE-2017-9224)

Affected Packages:

oniguruma

Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.

Issue Correction:
Run yum update oniguruma to update your system.

New Packages:

aarch64:  
    oniguruma-5.9.6-1.amzn2.0.5.aarch64  
    oniguruma-devel-5.9.6-1.amzn2.0.5.aarch64  
    oniguruma-debuginfo-5.9.6-1.amzn2.0.5.aarch64  
  
i686:  
    oniguruma-5.9.6-1.amzn2.0.5.i686  
    oniguruma-devel-5.9.6-1.amzn2.0.5.i686  
    oniguruma-debuginfo-5.9.6-1.amzn2.0.5.i686  
  
src:  
    oniguruma-5.9.6-1.amzn2.0.5.src  
  
x86_64:  
    oniguruma-5.9.6-1.amzn2.0.5.x86_64  
    oniguruma-devel-5.9.6-1.amzn2.0.5.x86_64  
    oniguruma-debuginfo-5.9.6-1.amzn2.0.5.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2017-9224

Mitre: CVE-2017-9224