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Debian DSA-2786-1 Moderate: ICU Race Condition And Remote Issues

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Calendar Grey October 27, 2013
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Advisory DSA-2786-1 details the ICU library vulnerabilities that were addressed on October 27, 2013 to enhance security and stability
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

Summary

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.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/



Package: icu
CVE ID: CVE-2013-0900 CVE-2013-2924

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