Debian: DSA-3360-1: icu security update

It was discovered that the International Components for Unicode (ICU) library mishandles converter names starting with x- , which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (read of uninitialized memory) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file.

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3360-1                   This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
https://www.debian.org/security/                 Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS)
September 15, 2015                    https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : icu
CVE ID         : CVE-2015-1270
Debian Bug     : 798647

It was discovered that the International Components for Unicode (ICU)
library mishandles converter names starting with x- , which allows
remote attackers to cause a denial of service (read of uninitialized
memory) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 52.1-8+deb8u3.

For the testing distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed
in version 55.1-5.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 55.1-5.

We recommend that you upgrade your icu packages.

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