It was discovered that the International Components for Unicode (ICU) library mishandles converter names starting with x-, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (read of uninitialized memory) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file. For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 52.1-8+deb8u3. For the testing distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 55.1-5. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 55.1-5. We recommend that you upgrade your icu packages.
It was discovered that the International Components for Unicode (ICU)
library mishandles converter names starting with x-, which allows
remote attackers to cause a denial of service (read of uninitialized
memory) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file.
For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 52.1-8+deb8u3.
For the testing distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 55.1-5.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 55.1-5.
We recommend that you upgrade your icu packages.
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