Use After Free Affecting icu package, versions <67.1-2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (38th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-ICU-1730332
  • published12 Oct 2021
  • 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 Debian:11 icu to version 67.1-2 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:11 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 Scores

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