ELA-162-1 libonig security update

stack exhaustion

2019-09-12
Packagelibonig
Version5.9.1-1+deb7u3
Related CVEs CVE-2019-16163


The Oniguruma regular expressions library, notably used in PHP mbstring, is vulnerable to stack exhaustion. A crafted regular expression can crash the process.



For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 5.9.1-1+deb7u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your libonig packages.

Further information about Extended LTS security advisories can be found in the dedicated section of our website.