High severity · published Apr 14, 2017
CVE-2017-7868
International Components for Unicode (ICU) for C/C++ before 2017-02-13 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the utf8TextAccess function in…
7.5
CVSS
4.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
International Components for Unicode (ICU) for C/C++ before 2017-02-13 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the utf8TextAccess function in common/utext.cpp and the utext_moveIndex32* function.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)4.4% · higher than 91% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0 · source: NVD
IC
International Components For Unicode · Icu-project
through 58.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7868
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-7868
Patch
http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/changeset/39671
Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3830
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97674
Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=437
Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-03
www.oracle.com
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html
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