K16835 : ICU overflow vulnerabilities CVE-2014-8146 and CVE-2014-8147

Security Advisory Description

• CVE-2014-8146

The resolveImplicitLevels function in common/ubidi.c in the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm implementation in ICU4C in International Components for Unicode (ICU) before 55.1 does not properly track directionally isolated pieces of text, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted text.

• CVE-2014-8147

The resolveImplicitLevels function in common/ubidi.c in the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm implementation in ICU4C in International Components for Unicode (ICU) before 55.1 uses an integer data type that is inconsistent with a header file, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (incorrect malloc followed by invalid free) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted text.

Impact

This vulnerability may allow remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) or possibly execute arbitrary code using crafted text.