<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="201209-07"> <title>International Components for Unicode: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code </title> <synopsis>A buffer overflow in International Components for Unicode could result in execution of arbitrary code or Denial of Service. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">icu</product> <announced>2012-09-24</announced> <revised count="1">2012-09-24</revised> <bug>394201</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="dev-libs/icu" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">49.1.1-r1</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">49.1.1-r1</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p>International Components for Unicode (ICU) is a set of C/C++ and Java libraries providing Unicode and Globalization support for software applications. </p> </background> <description> <p>An error in the _canonicalize() function in uloc.cpp could cause a stack-based buffer overflow. </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p>A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted locale representation using an application linked against ICU, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or a Denial of Service condition. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p> </workaround> <resolution> <p>All ICU users should upgrade to the latest version:</p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/icu-49.1.1-r1" </code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-4599">CVE-2011-4599</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2012-06-07T15:27:29Z">ackle</metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2012-09-24T23:23:13Z">ackle</metadata> </glsa>