Out-of-bounds Write Affecting icu package, versions <4.8.1.1-3ubuntu0.8
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1204-ICU-337361
- published14 Apr 2017
- disclosed14 Apr 2017
Introduced: 14 Apr 2017
CVE-2017-7868 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:12.04 icu to version 4.8.1.1-3ubuntu0.8 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 Ubuntu.
See How to fix? for Ubuntu:12.04 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.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-7868
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7868
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3830
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-7868
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-03
- http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/changeset/39671
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=437
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97674