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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RHSA-2009:1122-01 Moderate ICU Encoding Flaw

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Calendar Grey June 25, 2009
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat releases patches for icu components addressing a moderate vulnerability on Enterprise Linux 5. Users urged to upgrade for enhanced security.
Updated icu packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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 byte sequences during Unicode conversion. 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-2009-0153)
All users of icu should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve this issue.

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Topics Covered

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References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0153 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client):
Source:
i386: icu-3.6-5.11.4.i386.rpm icu-debuginfo-3.6-5.11.4.i386.rpm libicu-3.6-5.11.4.i386.rpm libicu-doc-3.6-5.11.4.i386.rpm
x86_64: icu-3.6-5.11.4.x86_64.rpm icu-debuginfo-3.6-5.11.4.i386.rpm icu-debuginfo-3.6-5.11.4.x86_64.rpm libicu-3.6-5.11.4.i386.rpm libicu-3.6-5.11.4.x86_64.rpm libicu-doc-3.6-5.11.4.x86_64.rpm
RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client):
Source:
i386: icu-debuginfo-3.6-5.11.4.i386.rpm libicu-devel-3.6-5.11.4.i386.rpm
x86_64: icu-debuginfo-3.6-5.11.4.i386.rpm icu-debuginfo-3.6-5.11.4.x86_64.rpm libicu-devel-3.6-5.11.4.i386.rpm libicu-devel-3.6-5.11.4.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server):
Source:
i386: icu-3.6-5.11.4.i386.rpm icu-debuginfo-3.6-5.11.4.i386.rpm libicu-3.6-5.11.4.i386.rpm libicu-devel-3.6-5.11.4.i386.rpm libicu-doc-3.6-5.11.4.i386.rpm
ia64: icu-3.6-5.11.4.ia64.rpm icu-debuginfo-3.6-5.11.4.ia64.rpm libicu-3.6-5.11.4.ia64.rpm libicu-devel-3.6-5.11.4.ia64.rpm libicu-doc-3.6-5.11.4.ia64.rpm
ppc: icu-3.6-5.11.4.ppc.rpm icu-debuginfo-3.6-5.11.4.ppc.rpm icu-debuginfo-3.6-5.11.4.ppc64.rpm libicu-3.6-5.11.4.ppc.rpm libicu-3.6-5.11.4.ppc64.rpm libicu-devel-3.6-5.11.4.ppc.rpm libicu-devel-3.6-5.11.4.ppc64.rpm libicu-doc-3.6-5.11.4.ppc.rpm
s390x: icu-3.6-5.11.4.s390x.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2009:1122-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:1122.html
Issue date: 2009-06-25

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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Red Hat update security fix icu flaw

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

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

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

Bugs Fixed

503071 - CVE-2009-0153 icu: XSS vulnerability due to improper invalid byte sequence handling

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