[SECURITY] [DSA 3725-1] icu security update

Debian Security Advisory DSA-3725-1 [email protected]
https://www.debian.org/security/ Luciano Bello
November 27, 2016 https://www.debian.org/security/faq

Package : icu
CVE ID : CVE-2014-9911 CVE-2015-2632 CVE-2015-4844 CVE-2016-0494
CVE-2016-6293 CVE-2016-7415
Debian Bug : 838694

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the International Components
for Unicode (ICU) library.

CVE-2014-9911

Michele Spagnuolo discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability which
might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly
execute arbitrary code via crafted text.

CVE-2015-2632

An integer overflow vulnerability might lead into a denial of service
or disclosure of portion of application memory if an attacker has
control on the input file.

CVE-2015-4844

Buffer overflow vulnerabilities might allow an attacker with control
on the font file to perform a denial of service attacker or,
possibly, execute arbitrary code.

CVE-2016-0494

Integer signedness issues were introduced as part of the
CVE-2015-4844 fix.

CVE-2016-6293

A buffer overflow might allow an attacker to perform a denial of
service or disclosure of portion of application memory.

CVE-2016-7415

A stack-based buffer overflow might allow an attacker with control on
the locale string to perform a denial of service and, possibly,
execute arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 52.1-8+deb8u4.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 57.1-5.

We recommend that you upgrade your icu packages.

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