Ubuntu 15.04: USN-2740-1 Moderate: ICU Remote Code Exploit

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September 16, 2015

Several security issues were fixed in ICU.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in ICU.

Software Description:

- icu: International Components for Unicode library

Details:

Atte Kettunen discovered that ICU incorrectly handled certain converter

names. If an application using ICU processed crafted data, a remote

attacker could possibly cause it to crash. (CVE-2015-1270)

It was discovered that ICU incorrectly handled certain memory operations

when processing data. If an application using ICU processed crafted data,

a remote attacker could possibly cause it to crash or potentially execute

arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program.

(CVE-2015-2632, CVE-2015-4760)

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate remote code execution ubuntu icu

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 15.04:
  libicu52                        52.1-8ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  libicu52                        52.1-3ubuntu0.4

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  libicu48                        4.8.1.1-3ubuntu0.6

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.