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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : icu (MDVSA-2011:194)

high Nessus Plugin ID 57407

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Synopsis

The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

A vulnerability has been discovered and corrected in icu :

A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way ICU performed variant canonicalization for some locale identifiers. If a specially crafted locale representation was opened in an application linked against ICU, it could cause the application to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application (CVE-2011-4599).

The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=765812

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 57407

File Name: mandriva_MDVSA-2011-194.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Published: 12/28/2011

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:icu, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:icu-doc, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64icu-devel, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64icu44, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64icu48, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libicu-devel, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libicu44, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libicu48, cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2010.1, cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2011

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/Mandrake/release, Host/Mandrake/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/27/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-4599

BID: 51006

MDVSA: 2011:194