Debian DLA-219-1 : icu security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 83476

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the International Components for Unicode (ICU) library :

CVE-2013-1569

Glyph table issue.

CVE-2013-2383

Glyph table issue.

CVE-2013-2384

Font layout issue.

CVE-2013-2419

Font processing issue.

CVE-2014-6585

Out-of-bounds read.

CVE-2014-6591

Additional out-of-bounds reads.

CVE-2014-7923

Memory corruption in regular expression comparison.

CVE-2014-7926

Memory corruption in regular expression comparison.

CVE-2014-7940

Uninitialized memory.

CVE-2014-9654

More regular expression flaws.

For Debian 6 'Squeeze', these issues have been fixed in icu version 4.4.1-8+squeeze3.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/05/msg00003.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze-lts/icu

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 83476

File Name: debian_DLA-219.nasl

Version: 2.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/15/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:icu-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:lib32icu-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:lib32icu44, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libicu-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libicu44, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libicu44-dbg, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/14/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-1569, CVE-2013-2383, CVE-2013-2384, CVE-2013-2419, CVE-2014-6585, CVE-2014-6591, CVE-2014-7923, CVE-2014-7926, CVE-2014-7940, CVE-2014-9654

BID: 59131, 59166, 59179, 59190, 72173, 72175, 72288, 72980