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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4150-1 icu -- security update

Date Reported:

23 Mar 2018

Affected Packages:

icu

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-15422.

More information:

It was discovered that an integer overflow in the International Components for Unicode (ICU) library could result in denial of service and potentially the execution of arbitrary code.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 52.1-8+deb8u7.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 57.1-6+deb9u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your icu packages.

For the detailed security status of icu please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/icu