#VU7568 Heap-based buffer overflow in icu - CVE-2017-7867 

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#VU7568 Heap-based buffer overflow in icu - CVE-2017-7867

Published: July 18, 2017 / Updated: May 30, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU7568
Vulnerability risk: High
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-7867
CWE-ID: CWE-122
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
icu
Software vendor:
ICU - International Components for Unicode

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.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

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