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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3187-1 icu -- security update

Date Reported:

15 Mar 2015

Affected Packages:

icu

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 775884, Bug 776264, Bug 776265, Bug 776719.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2013-1569, CVE-2013-2383, CVE-2013-2384, CVE-2013-2419, CVE-2014-6585, CVE-2014-6591, CVE-2014-7923, CVE-2014-7926, CVE-2014-7940, CVE-2014-9654.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the International Components for Unicode (ICU) library.

• CVE-2013-1569

  Glyph table issue.

• CVE-2013-2383

  Glyph table issue.

• CVE-2013-2384

  Font layout issue.

• CVE-2013-2419

  Font processing issue.

• CVE-2014-6585

  Out-of-bounds read.

• CVE-2014-6591

  Additional out-of-bounds reads.

• CVE-2014-7923

  Memory corruption in regular expression comparison.

• CVE-2014-7926

  Memory corruption in regular expression comparison.

• CVE-2014-7940

  Uninitialized memory.

• CVE-2014-9654

  More regular expression flaws.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 4.8.1.1-12+deb7u2.

For the upcoming stable (jessie) and unstable (sid) distributions, these problems have been fixed in version 52.1-7.1.

We recommend that you upgrade your icu packages.