International Components for Unicode is a set of C/C++ and Java libraries providing Unicode and Globalization support for software applications.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in International Components for Unicode. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
A remote attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All International Components for Unicode users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/icu-51.2-r1"
Packages which depend on this library may need to be recompiled. Tools such as revdep-rebuild may assist in identifying some of these packages.