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Ubuntu: (CVE-2025-5222): icu vulnerability

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
May 27, 2025
Added
Jun 26, 2025
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

A stack buffer overflow was found in Internationl components for unicode (ICU ). While running the genrb binary, the 'subtag' struct overflowed at the SRBRoot::addTag function. This issue may lead to memory corruption and local arbitrary code execution.

Solution

no-fix-ubuntu-package
Title
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