Debian: DSA-2786-1: icu security update

Date 27 Oct 2013

Category Debian Linux Distribution - Security Advisories

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Posted By LinuxSecurity Advisories

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.

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-2786-1 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
https://www.debian.org/security/ Michael Gilbert
October 27, 2013 https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : icu
Vulnerability : several
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CVE-2013-0900 CVE-2013-2924
Debian Bug : 702346 726477

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.

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