Debian DSA-2786-1 : icu - several vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 70664

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

The Google Chrome Security Team discovered two issues (a race condition and a use-after-free issue) in the International Components for Unicode (ICU) library.

Solution

Upgrade the icu packages.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 4.4.1-8+squeeze2.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), which is only affected by CVE-2013-2924, this problem has been fixed in version 4.8.1.1-12+deb7u1.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=702346

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=726477

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-2924

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

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/icu

https://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2786

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 70664

File Name: debian_DSA-2786.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/29/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:icu, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/27/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-0900, CVE-2013-2924

BID: 58318, 62968

DSA: 2786