RedHat: RHSA-2009-0296:01 Moderate: icu security update
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.
Summary
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
References
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1036 http://www.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
libicu-doc-3.6-5.11.2.ppc.rpm
s390x:
icu-3.6-5.11.2.s390x.rpm
icu-debuginfo-3.6-5.11.2.s390.rpm
icu-debuginfo-3.6-5.11.2.s390x.rpm
libicu-3.6-5.11.2.s390.rpm
libicu-3.6-5.11.2.s390x.rpm
libicu-devel-3.6-5.11.2.s390.rpm
libicu-devel-3.6-5.11.2.s390x.rpm
libicu-doc-3.6-5.11.2.s390x.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-devel-3.6-5.11.2.i386.rpm
libicu-devel-3.6-5.11.2.x86_64.rpm
libicu-doc-3.6-5.11.2.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://www.redhat.com/security/team/key/#package
Topic
Updated icu packages that fix a security issue are now available for RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the RedHat Security Response Team.
Topic
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)