CVE-2016-7415

critical

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.

References

Advisories
More

https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-19

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-58

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93022

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/15/10

https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-09-17

Updated: 2025-04-12

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: 0.02953