Debian Security Advisory

DLA-947-1 icu -- LTS security update

Date Reported:
20 May 2017
Affected Packages:
icu
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-7867, CVE-2017-7868.
More information:

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 Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 4.8.1.1-12+deb7u7.

We recommend that you upgrade your icu packages.

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS