Out-of-bounds Write Affecting unicode-org/icu package, versions [,59)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.77% (91st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-UNICODEORGICU-2335031
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed14 Apr 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Apr 2017

CVE-2017-7868  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade unicode-org/icu to version 59 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write. 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.

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