CVE-2017-7868

Publication date 14 April 2017

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

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.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
icu 17.04 zesty
Fixed 57.1-5ubuntu0.1
16.10 yakkety
Fixed 57.1-4ubuntu0.2
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 55.1-7ubuntu0.2
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 52.1-3ubuntu0.6
12.04 LTS precise Ignored end of life

Notes

mdeslaur

same commit as CVE-2017-7867

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.5 · High
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

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