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WID-SEC-W-2025-1659

Vulnerability from csaf_certbund - Published: 2017-10-16 22:00 - Updated: 2025-10-26 23:00

Summary

International Components for Unicode (icu): Schwachstelle ermöglicht Denial of Service

Notes

Das BSI ist als Anbieter für die eigenen, zur Nutzung bereitgestellten Inhalte nach den allgemeinen Gesetzen verantwortlich. Nutzerinnen und Nutzer sind jedoch dafür verantwortlich, die Verwendung und/oder die Umsetzung der mit den Inhalten bereitgestellten Informationen sorgfältig im Einzelfall zu prüfen.

Produktbeschreibung

Die International Components for Unicode (ICU) sind C, C++ und Java Bibliotheken zur Auswertung regulärer Ausdrücke bzw. zum Verarbeiten von Strings und Zeichen im Unicode Format.

Angriff

Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann eine Schwachstelle in International Components for Unicode (icu) ausnutzen, um einen Denial of Service Angriff durchzuführen.

Betroffene Betriebssysteme

- Android - iPhoneOS - Linux - MacOS X - Sonstiges - UNIX - Windows

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        "summary": "Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3458-1 vom 2017-10-23",
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        "category": "external",
        "summary": "SUSE Security Update SUSE-SU-2018:1401-1 vom 2018-05-24",
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CVE-2017-14952 (GCVE-0-2017-14952)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-10-16 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 19:42

Summary

Double free in i18n/zonemeta.cpp in International Components for Unicode (ICU) for C/C++ through 59.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted string, aka a "redundant UVector entry clean up function call" issue.

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre

References

URL

Tags

	http://www.sourcebrella.com/blog/double-free-vuln…	x_refsource_MISC
	http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/changeset/40324/…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advis…	x_refsource_MISC

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WID-SEC-W-2025-1659

CVE-2017-14952 (GCVE-0-2017-14952)

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