Use After Free Affecting libicu-devel package, versions <0:50.2-4.amzn2.0.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.21% (67th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2-LIBICUDEVEL-5803917
  • published25 Jul 2023
  • disclosed20 Sept 2021

Introduced: 20 Sep 2021

CVE-2020-21913  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 libicu-devel to version 0:50.2-4.amzn2.0.1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2023-2171.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libicu-devel package and not the libicu-devel package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2 relevant fixed versions and status.

International Components for Unicode (ICU-20850) v66.1 was discovered to contain a use after free bug in the pkg_createWithAssemblyCode function in the file tools/pkgdata/pkgdata.cpp.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1