CVE-2011-4599

critical

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the _canonicalize function in common/uloc.c in International Components for Unicode (ICU) before 49.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted locale ID that is not properly handled during variant canonicalization.

References

Advisories
More

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51006

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:194

http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2397

http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1348-1

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5503

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5501

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1815.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-01/msg00035.html

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00004.html

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00003.html

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=106441

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/71726

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/09/5

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/09/2

http://secunia.com/advisories/47775

http://secunia.com/advisories/47714

http://secunia.com/advisories/47674

http://secunia.com/advisories/47227

http://secunia.com/advisories/47146

http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/ticket/8984

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2012-06-21

Updated: 2025-04-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

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

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

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

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.05857