7.5
CVSSv2

CVE-2014-8147

Published: 25/05/2015 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 755
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

The resolveImplicitLevels function in common/ubidi.c in the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm implementation in ICU4C in International Components for Unicode (ICU) prior to 55.1 uses an integer data type that is inconsistent with a header file, which allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (incorrect malloc followed by invalid free) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted text.

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Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #784773 icu: CVE-2014-8146 and CVE-2014-8147 Package: icu; Maintainer for icu is Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) <gcs@debianorg>; Reported by: Marc Deslauriers <marcdeslauriers@ubuntucom> Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 17:27:02 UTC Severity: normal Tags: patch, security Found in versions 521-8, 521-1 ...
ICU could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it processed specially crafted data ...
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the International Components for Unicode (ICU) library CVE-2014-8146 The Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm implementation does not properly track directionally isolated pieces of text, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly execut ...
The resolveImplicitLevels function in common/ubidic in the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm implementation in ICU4C in International Components for Unicode (ICU) before 551 uses an integer data type that is inconsistent with a header file, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (incorrect malloc followed by invalid free) or pos ...

Exploits

>> Heap overflow and integer overflow in ICU library (v52 to v54) >> Discovered by Pedro Ribeiro (pedrib@gmailcom), Agile Information Security ================================================================================= Disclosure: 04/05/2015 / Last updated: 07/05/2015 >> Background on the affected products: ICU is a mature ...