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Debian Security Advisory DSA 3725-1 (icu - security update)

Information

Severity

Severity

Critical

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

10.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

7 years ago

Modified

Modified

2 years ago

Summary

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the International Components for Unicode (ICU) library. CVE-2014-9911 Michele Spagnuolo discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted text. CVE-2015-2632 An integer overflow vulnerability might lead into a denial of service or disclosure of portion of application memory if an attacker has control on the input file. CVE-2015-4844 Buffer overflow vulnerabilities might allow an attacker with control on the font file to perform a denial of service or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. CVE-2016-0494Integer signedness issues were introduced as part of the CVE-2015-4844 fix. CVE-2016-6293 A buffer overflow might allow an attacker to perform a denial of service or disclosure of portion of application memory. CVE-2016-7415 A stack-based buffer overflow might allow an attacker with control on the locale string to perform a denial of service and, possibly, execute arbitrary code.

Affected Software

Affected Software

icu on Debian Linux

Detection Method

Detection Method

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

Solution

Solution

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 52.1-8+deb8u4. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 57.1-5. We recommend that you upgrade your icu packages.