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Fedora 21 ICU Security Update: Critical Fixes for Multiple Issues

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Calendar Grey April 28, 2015
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Essential patch for Fedora 21 rectifying various ICU security flaws that bolster system integrity and performance.
Security fix for CVE-2014-9654, CVE-2014-7923, CVE-2014-7926

Summary

Tools and utilities for developing with icu.

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2014-9654, CVE-2014-7923, CVE-2014-7926

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical Fedora security fix vulnerability ICU

Change Log

* Fri Apr 10 2015 Eike Rathke - 52.1-6 - Resolves: rhbz#1190131 CVE-2014-7923 CVE-2014-7926 CVE-2014-9654 * Mon Mar 9 2015 Eike Rathke - 52.1-5 - Resolves: rhbz#1184811 CVE-2014-6585 CVE-2014-6591

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1185202 - CVE-2014-7923 ICU: regexp engine missing look-behind expression range check https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1185202 [ 2 ] Bug #1185205 - CVE-2014-7926 ICU: regexp engine incorrect handling of a zero length quantifier https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1185205 [ 3 ] Bug #1190129 - CVE-2014-9654 icu: insufficient size limit checks in regular expression compiler https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1190129

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update icu' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: icu
Product: Fedora 21
Version: 52.1
Release: 6.fc21
URL: https://icu-project.org/
Summary: International Components for Unicode

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical Fedora security fix vulnerability ICU

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