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Mageia 7: MGASA-2019-0353 Critical: ICU Integer Overflow Issue

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Calendar Grey December 6, 2019
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Recent updates to the ICU packages have resolved a significant integer overflow vulnerability found in Mageia's ICU. Discover more about this urgent update now.
The updated packages fix a security vulnerability: International Components for Unicode (ICU) for C/C++ 63.1 has an integer overflow in number::impl::DecimalQuantity::toScientific...

Summary

The updated packages fix a security vulnerability:
International Components for Unicode (ICU) for C/C++ 63.1 has an integer overflow in number::impl::DecimalQuantity::toScientificString() in i18n/number_decimalquantity.cpp. (CVE-2018-18928)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23155

- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/DHAC6XIATCPVSWFNBGGL2MRSBMN2F7D5/

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-18928

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update integer overflow ICU Mageia C/C++ string conversion

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/icu-63.1-1.1.mga7

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Publication date: 06 Dec 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0353.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2018-18928

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory software update integer overflow ICU Mageia C/C++ string conversion

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