Important: icu

Issue Overview:

An issue was discovered in International Components for Unicode (ICU) for C/C++ through 66.1. An integer overflow, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, exists in the UnicodeString::doAppend() function in common/unistr.cpp. (CVE-2020-10531)

Affected Packages:

icu

Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.

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

New Packages:

aarch64:  
    icu-50.2-4.amzn2.aarch64  
    libicu-50.2-4.amzn2.aarch64  
    libicu-devel-50.2-4.amzn2.aarch64  
    icu-debuginfo-50.2-4.amzn2.aarch64  
  
i686:  
    icu-50.2-4.amzn2.i686  
    libicu-50.2-4.amzn2.i686  
    libicu-devel-50.2-4.amzn2.i686  
    icu-debuginfo-50.2-4.amzn2.i686  
  
noarch:  
    libicu-doc-50.2-4.amzn2.noarch  
  
src:  
    icu-50.2-4.amzn2.src  
  
x86_64:  
    icu-50.2-4.amzn2.x86_64  
    libicu-50.2-4.amzn2.x86_64  
    libicu-devel-50.2-4.amzn2.x86_64  
    icu-debuginfo-50.2-4.amzn2.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2020-10531

Mitre: CVE-2020-10531