Out-of-Bounds Affecting icu package, versions <57.1-5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.07% (84th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-ICU-521367
  • published17 Sept 2016
  • disclosed17 Sept 2016

Introduced: 17 Sep 2016

CVE-2016-7415  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 icu to version 57.1-5 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.

Stack-based buffer overflow in the Locale class in common/locid.cpp in International Components for Unicode (ICU) through 57.1 for C/C++ allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long locale string.