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Out-of-bounds Write Affecting icu package, versions <55.1-7ubuntu0.2

Severity

 Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    1.21% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1604-ICU-337279
  • published 14 Apr 2017
  • disclosed 14 Apr 2017
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Introduced: 14 Apr 2017

CVE-2017-7867 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-787 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:16.04 icu to version 55.1-7ubuntu0.2 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 Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:16.04 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_setNativeIndex* function.