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Red Hat: RHSA-2009:0296-01 Moderate: ICU Library Security Issue

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Calendar Grey March 12, 2009
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A recent update for the icu packages addresses a significant security vulnerability found in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This is crucial for ensuring secure functionality.
Updated icu packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Sec...

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at

Summary

The International Components for Unicode (ICU) library provides robust and full-featured Unicode services.
A flaw was found in the way ICU processed certain, invalid, encoded data. If an application used ICU to decode malformed, multibyte, character data, it may have been possible to bypass certain content protection mechanisms, or display information in a manner misleading to the user. (CVE-2008-1036)
All users of icu should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue Red Hat software update moderate impact ICU library ICU fix

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-1036 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client):
Source:
i386: icu-3.6-5.11.2.i386.rpm icu-debuginfo-3.6-5.11.2.i386.rpm libicu-3.6-5.11.2.i386.rpm libicu-doc-3.6-5.11.2.i386.rpm
x86_64: icu-3.6-5.11.2.x86_64.rpm icu-debuginfo-3.6-5.11.2.i386.rpm icu-debuginfo-3.6-5.11.2.x86_64.rpm libicu-3.6-5.11.2.i386.rpm libicu-3.6-5.11.2.x86_64.rpm libicu-doc-3.6-5.11.2.x86_64.rpm
RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client):
Source:
i386: icu-debuginfo-3.6-5.11.2.i386.rpm libicu-devel-3.6-5.11.2.i386.rpm
x86_64: icu-debuginfo-3.6-5.11.2.i386.rpm icu-debuginfo-3.6-5.11.2.x86_64.rpm libicu-devel-3.6-5.11.2.i386.rpm libicu-devel-3.6-5.11.2.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server):
Source:
i386: icu-3.6-5.11.2.i386.rpm icu-debuginfo-3.6-5.11.2.i386.rpm libicu-3.6-5.11.2.i386.rpm libicu-devel-3.6-5.11.2.i386.rpm libicu-doc-3.6-5.11.2.i386.rpm
ia64: icu-3.6-5.11.2.ia64.rpm icu-debuginfo-3.6-5.11.2.ia64.rpm libicu-3.6-5.11.2.ia64.rpm libicu-devel-3.6-5.11.2.ia64.rpm libicu-doc-3.6-5.11.2.ia64.rpm
ppc: icu-3.6-5.11.2.ppc.rpm icu-debuginfo-3.6-5.11.2.ppc.rpm icu-debuginfo-3.6-5.11.2.ppc64.rpm libicu-3.6-5.11.2.ppc.rpm libicu-3.6-5.11.2.ppc64.rpm libicu-devel-3.6-5.11.2.ppc.rpm libicu-devel-3.6-5.11.2.ppc64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2009:0296-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:0296.html
Issue date: 2009-03-12

Topic

Updated icu packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue Red Hat software update moderate impact ICU library ICU fix

Relevant Releases Architectures

RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) - i386, ia64, ppc, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

464168 - CVE-2008-1036 ICU: Invalid character sequences omission during conversion of some character encodings (XSS attack possible)

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