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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.77% (91st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-ICU-337352
  • published14 Apr 2017
  • disclosed14 Apr 2017

Introduced: 14 Apr 2017

CVE-2017-7868  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

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_moveIndex32* function.