USN-2740-1: ICU vulnerabilities

16 September 2015

Several security issues were fixed in ICU.

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Releases

Packages

  • icu - International Components for Unicode library

Details

Atte Kettunen discovered that ICU incorrectly handled certain converter
names. If an application using ICU processed crafted data, a remote
attacker could possibly cause it to crash. (CVE-2015-1270)

It was discovered that ICU incorrectly handled certain memory operations
when processing data. If an application using ICU processed crafted data,
a remote attacker could possibly cause it to crash or potentially execute
arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program.
(CVE-2015-2632, CVE-2015-4760)

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 15.04
Ubuntu 14.04
Ubuntu 12.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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