vulnerability
Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-7868: Out-of-bounds Write
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Apr 14, 2017 | Sep 20, 2017 | Mar 25, 2026 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Apr 14, 2017
Added
Sep 20, 2017
Modified
Mar 25, 2026
Description
International Components for Unicode (ICU) for C/C++ before 2017-02-13 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the utf8TextAccess function in common/utext.cpp and the utext_moveIndex32* function.
Solution
alpine-linux-upgrade-icu
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