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

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.

icu on Debian Linux

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

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.