Buffer Overflow The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libicu-devel  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-LIBICUDEVEL-10948215
  • published26 Jul 2025
  • disclosed1 Jan 2025

Introduced: 1 Jan 2025

CVE-2025-5222  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-120  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.

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 RHEL.

A stack buffer overflow was found in Internationl components for unicode (ICU ). While running the genrb binary, the 'subtag' struct overflowed at the SRBRoot::addTag function. This issue may lead to memory corruption and local arbitrary code execution.