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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-744-1 icu -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

16 Dec 2016

Affected Packages:

icu

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 838694.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-9911, CVE-2016-7415.

More information:

Brief introduction

• CVE-2014-9911

  Michele Spagnuolo discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted text.

• CVE-2016-7415

  A stack-based buffer overflow might allow an attacker with control of the locale string to perform a denial of service and, possibly, execute arbitrary code.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 4.8.1.1-12+deb7u6.

We recommend that you upgrade your icu packages.

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