Security Information / 2013 / Security Information -- DSA-2786-1 icu

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2786-1 icu -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

27 Oct 2013

Affected Packages:

icu

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 702346, Bug 726477.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2013-0900, CVE-2013-2924.

More information:

The Google Chrome Security Team discovered two issues (a race condition and a use-after-free issue) in the International Components for Unicode (ICU) library.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 4.4.1-8+squeeze2.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), which is only affected by CVE-2013-2924, this problem has been fixed in version 4.8.1.1-12+deb7u1.

For the testing distribution (jessie), which is only affected by CVE-2013-2924, this problem will be fixed soon.

For the unstable distribution (sid), which is only affected by CVE-2013-2924, this problem has been fixed in version 4.8.1.1-13+nmu1.

We recommend that you upgrade your icu packages.