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CESA-2008:0090: icu security update

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CESA-2008:0090: icu security update

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
01/28/2008
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/12/2010
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

The International Components for Unicode (ICU) library provides robust andfull-featured Unicode services.Will Drewry reported multiple flaws in the way libicu processed certainmalformed regular expressions. If an application linked against ICU, suchas OpenOffice.org, processed a carefully crafted regular expression, it maybe possible to execute arbitrary code as the user running the application.(CVE-2007-4770, CVE-2007-4771)All users of icu should upgrade to these updated packages, which containbackported patches to resolve these issues.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-icu
  • centos-upgrade-libicu
  • centos-upgrade-libicu-devel
  • centos-upgrade-libicu-doc

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