CVE-2017-7867

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-7867  

A vulnerability was found in the International Components for Unicode (ICU). Specially crafted invalid utf-8 text, when parsed or manipulated using particular functions in libicu, could cause out-of-bounds heap reads and writes potentially leading to a crash, memory disclosure, or possibly code execution.

A vulnerability was found in the International Components for Unicode (ICU). Specially crafted invalid utf-8 text, when parsed or manipulated using particular functions in libicu, could cause out-of-bounds heap reads and writes potentially leading to a crash, memory disclosure, or possibly code execution.

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Statement

Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Moderate security impact. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

CVSS v3 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS3 Base Score 5.3
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Impact Low
Availability Impact Low

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2 icu Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 icu Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 icu Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 icu Will not fix