Medium: icu

Issue Overview:

A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way ICU performed variant canonicalization for some locale identifiers. If a specially-crafted locale representation was opened in an application linked against ICU, it could cause the application to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. (CVE-2011-4599)

Affected Packages:

icu

Issue Correction:
Run yum update icu to update your system.

New Packages:

i686:  
    libicu-4.2.1-9.9.amzn1.i686  
    icu-4.2.1-9.9.amzn1.i686  
    libicu-devel-4.2.1-9.9.amzn1.i686  
    icu-debuginfo-4.2.1-9.9.amzn1.i686  
  
noarch:  
    libicu-doc-4.2.1-9.9.amzn1.noarch  
  
src:  
    icu-4.2.1-9.9.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    icu-debuginfo-4.2.1-9.9.amzn1.x86_64  
    libicu-4.2.1-9.9.amzn1.x86_64  
    libicu-devel-4.2.1-9.9.amzn1.x86_64  
    icu-4.2.1-9.9.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2011-4599

Mitre: CVE-2011-4599