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Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package icu  (opens in a new tab)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-620279
  • published25 Jul 2016
  • disclosed25 Jul 2016
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Introduced: 25 Jul 2016

CVE-2016-6293  (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 uloc_acceptLanguageFromHTTP function in common/uloc.cpp in International Components for Unicode (ICU) through 57.1 for C/C++ does not ensure that there is a '\0' character at the end of a certain temporary array, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a call with a long httpAcceptLanguage argument.