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ELSA-2011-1815 Moderate: Oracle Linux icu security update

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ELSA-2011-1815 Moderate: Oracle Linux icu security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/21/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/21/2012
Modified
04/11/2019

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the _canonicalize function in common/uloc.c in International Components for Unicode (ICU) before 49.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted locale ID that is not properly handled during variant canonicalization.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-icu
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-libicu
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-libicu-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-libicu-doc

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