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Buffer Overflow The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package icu  (opens in a new tab)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-UBUNTU2510-ICU-15019783
  • published17 Jan 2026
  • disclosed27 May 2025
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Introduced: 27 May 2025

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

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:25.10.

NVD Description

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

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.

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