Description
libicu in International Components for Unicode (ICU) 3.8.1 and earlier attempts to process backreferences to the nonexistent capture group zero (aka \0), which might allow context-dependent attackers to read from, or write to, out-of-bounds memory locations, related to corruption of REStackFrames.
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CVSS Vector Breakdown
Exploitability
AV:NAccess VectorNetwork
AC:MAccess ComplexityMedium
Au:NAuthenticationNone
Impact
C:PConfidentialityPartial
I:PIntegrityPartial
A:PAvailabilityPartial
Weaknesses
Affected Products
Gentoo Foundation Inc.
oss-project·US
Сообщество свободного программного обеспечения
oss-projectaka fsf
ООО «РусБИТех-Астра»
commercial·RUaka rusbitech-astra
Unicode Consortium
oss-project·USaka unicode
icu-project
oss-projectaka international components for unicode
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Exploitability
Official Patch Available
References
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-20.xml
security.gentoo.org
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-4771
nvd.nist.gov
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-4771
security-tracker.debian.org
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