Gentoo update for ICU

Published: 2017-10-08

Risk	Medium
Patch available	YES
Number of vulnerabilities	2
CVE-ID	CVE-2017-7867 CVE-2017-7868
CWE-ID	CWE-122
Exploitation vector	Network
Public exploit	N/A
Vulnerable software Subscribe	Gentoo Linux Operating systems & Components / Operating system
Vendor	Gentoo

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains information about 2 vulnerabilities.

1) Heap-based buffer overflow

EUVDB-ID: #VU7568

Risk: High

CVSSv3.1: 8.3 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2017-7867

CWE-ID: CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to boundary error in utf8TextAccess() function in common/utext.cpp and the utext_moveIndex32* function in International Components for Unicode (ICU) for C/C++ before 2017-02-13. A remote unauthenticated attacker can trigger heap-based buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

Mitigation

Update the affected packages.
dev-libs/icu to version: 58.2-r1

Vulnerable software versions

Gentoo Linux: All versions

External links

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-03

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.

2) Heap-based buffer overflow

EUVDB-ID: #VU7569