CVE-2011-4599

Synopsis Moderate: icu security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic Updated icu packages that fix one security issue are now available forRed Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderatesecurity impact A Common Vulnerability Sco ...

Debian Bug report logs - #654883 CVE-2011-4599 Package: icu; Maintainer for icu is Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) <gcs@debianorg>; Reported by: Moritz Muehlenhoff <muehlenhoff@univentionde> Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 14:57:05 UTC Severity: grave Tags: security Fixed in version icu/4811-3 Done: Jay Berkenbilt <qjb@deb ...

ICU could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened specially crafted data ...

It was discovered that a buffer overflow in the Unicode library ICU could lead to the execution of arbitrary code For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 381-3+lenny3 For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 441-8 For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has ...

A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way ICU performed variant canonicalization for some locale identifiers If a specially-crafted locale representation was opened in an application linked against ICU, it could cause the application to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application ...