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Gentoo: GLSA-202301-12 Important: ICU Vulnerability Alert

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Calendar Grey January 24, 2017
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Several weaknesses in ICU may result in Denial of Service. Update now for enhanced security integrity.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in ICU, the worst of which could cause a Denial of Service condition.

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in ICU. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

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security advisory Gentoo Denial of Service multiple risks ICU

Resolution

All ICU users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/icu-58.1"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2015-2632 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-2632 [ 2 ] CVE-2016-6293 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-6293 [ 3 ] CVE-2016-7415 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-7415

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-58
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

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Severity: Normal
Title: ICU: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: January 24, 2017
Bugs: #589814, #594494, #601396
ID: 201701-58

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security advisory Gentoo Denial of Service multiple risks ICU

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in ICU, the worst of which could cause a Denial of Service condition.

Background

ICU is a mature, widely used set of C/C++ and Java libraries providing Unicode and Globalization support for software applications.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-libs/icu < 58.1 >= 58.1

Impact

===== Remote attackers could cause a Denial of Service condition or possibly have other unspecified impacts via a long locale string or httpAcceptLanguage argument. Additionally, A remote attacker, via a specially crafted file, could cause an application using ICU to parse untrusted font files resulting in a Denial of Service condition. Finally, remote attackers could affect confidentiality via unknown vectors related to 2D.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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