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openSUSE Leap 42.3 Security Update 2018:1422-1 Moderate: ICU DoS Fix

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Calendar Grey May 25, 2018
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Latest patch addresses several vulnerabilities in openSUSE’s ICU module. Urgent measures suggested for improved protection.
An update that fixes 8 vulnerabilities is now available.

Description

icu was updated to fix two security issues.

These security issues were fixed:

- CVE-2014-8147: The resolveImplicitLevels function in common/ubidi.c in

the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm implementation in ICU4C in

International Components for Unicode (ICU) used an integer data type

that is inconsistent with a header file, which allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (incorrect malloc followed by invalid free)

or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted text (bsc#929629).

- CVE-2014-8146: The resolveImplicitLevels function in common/ubidi.c in

the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm implementation in ICU4C in

International Components for Unicode (ICU) did not properly track

directionally isolated pieces of text, which allowed remote attackers to

cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly

execute arbitrary code via crafted text (bsc#929629).

- CVE-2016-6293: The...

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service software update security fix moderate issue openSUSE icu fix

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-517=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):

icu-52.1-18.1

icu-data-52.1-18.1

icu-debuginfo-52.1-18.1

icu-debugsource-52.1-18.1

libicu-devel-52.1-18.1

libicu-doc-52.1-18.1

libicu52_1-52.1-18.1

libicu52_1-data-52.1-18.1

libicu52_1-debuginfo-52.1-18.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (x86_64):

libicu-devel-32bit-52.1-18.1

libicu52_1-32bit-52.1-18.1

libicu52_1-debuginfo-32bit-52.1-18.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8146.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8147.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6293.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-14952.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15422.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-17484.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7867.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7868.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1034674

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1034678

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1067203

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1072193

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1077999

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1087932

https://bugzilla.suse.com/929629

https://bugzilla.suse.com/990636

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:1422-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service software update security fix moderate issue openSUSE icu fix

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