Synopsis
Moderate: icu security update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory: Moderate
Topic
Updated icu packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red
Hat Security Response Team.
Description
The International Components for Unicode (ICU) library provides robust and
full-featured Unicode services.
A flaw was found in the way ICU processed certain, invalid byte sequences
during Unicode conversion. If an application used ICU to decode malformed,
multibyte character data, it may have been possible to bypass certain
content protection mechanisms, or display information in a manner
misleading to the user. (CVE-2009-0153)
All users of icu should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain
backported patches to resolve this issue.
Solution
Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.
This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259
Affected Products
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 5.3 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 5.3 ia64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 5.3 i386
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 5.3 s390x
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 5.3 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 5.3 ia64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 5.3 i386
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 5.3 ppc
Fixes
- BZ - 503071 - CVE-2009-0153 icu: XSS vulnerability due to improper invalid byte sequence handling
CVEs
References
Vulmon