Debian Security Advisory
DSA-3830-1 icu -- security update
- Date Reported:
- 19 Apr 2017
- Affected Packages:
- icu
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 860314.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-7867, CVE-2017-7868. - More information:
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It was discovered that icu, the International Components for Unicode library, did not correctly validate its input. An attacker could use this problem to trigger an out-of-bound write through a heap-based buffer overflow, thus causing a denial of service via application crash, or potential execution of arbitrary code.
For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 52.1-8+deb8u5.
For the upcoming stable (stretch) and unstable (sid) distributions, these problems have been fixed in version 57.1-6.
We recommend that you upgrade your icu packages.