glsa-201507-04.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201507-04">
  <title>International Components for Unicode: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in International
    Components for Unicode, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code or
    cause a Denial of Service condition.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">icu</product>
  <announced>July 07, 2015</announced>
  <revised>July 07, 2015: 1</revised>
  <bug>546156</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-libs/icu" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">55.1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">55.1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>International Components for Unicode is a set of C/C++ and Java
      libraries providing Unicode and Globalization support for software
      applications.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in International
      Components for Unicode. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced
      below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of
      the process or cause a Denial of Service condition.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All International Components for Unicode users should upgrade to the
      latest version:
    </p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-libs/icu-55.1"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-8146">CVE-2014-8146</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-8147">CVE-2014-8147</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Tue, 30 Jun 2015 20:31:45 +0000">
    BlueKnight
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue, 07 Jul 2015 06:54:03 +0000">Zlogene</metadata>
</glsa>