International Components for Unicode (ICU) for C/C++ before 2017-02-13 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the utf8TextAccess function in common/utext.cpp and the utext_moveIndex32* function.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2017-7868 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
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 |
| 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 |
| Red Hat Directory Server 8 | icu | Will not fix |
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