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CVE-2016-7415

Published: Sep 17, 2016Updated: May 6, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVDCWE-119
9.8CRITICAL
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
5.8%
Top 7.9%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
No Fix Available

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the Locale class in common/locid.cpp in International Components for Unicode (ICU) through 57.1 for C/C++ allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long locale string.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:NUI:NS:UC:HI:HA:H
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:HConfidentiality
High
I:HIntegrity
High
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

CWE-119

Affected Products

n/an/a
international components for unicodeicu-project
Library
OSS Libraries / generic-library
icu-projectoss-projectOSS Librariesaka international components for unicode

Exploitability

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MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques
Initial Access
Privilege Escalation
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References

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73007
bugs.php.net
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/15/10
openwall.com
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-58
security.gentoo.org
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Timeline

Published
Sep 17, 2016
Last Updated
May 6, 2026

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