Out-of-bounds Write Affecting icu package, versions <52.1-8+deb8u5


0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 1.21% (86th percentile)
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NVD
7.5 high
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Red Hat
5.3 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN8-ICU-337268
  • published 14 Apr 2017
  • disclosed 14 Apr 2017

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 icu to version 52.1-8+deb8u5 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream icu package and not the icu package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

International Components for Unicode (ICU) for C/C++ before 2017-02-13 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the utf8TextAccess function in common/utext.cpp and the utext_setNativeIndex* function.