Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package icu  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1704-ICU-617092
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed10 Dec 2017

Introduced: 10 Dec 2017

CVE-2017-17484  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:17.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream icu package and not the icu package as distributed by Ubuntu.

The ucnv_UTF8FromUTF8 function in ucnv_u8.cpp in International Components for Unicode (ICU) for C/C++ through 60.1 mishandles ucnv_convertEx calls for UTF-8 to UTF-8 conversion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted string, as demonstrated by ZNC.