metadata/glsa/glsa-201710-03.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201710-03">
  <title>ICU: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in ICU, the worst of which
    could allow remote code execution.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">icu</product>
  <announced>2017-10-08</announced>
  <revised count="1">2017-10-08</revised>
  <bug>616468</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-libs/icu" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">58.2-r1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">58.2-r1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>ICU is a mature, widely used set of C/C++ and Java libraries providing
      Unicode and Globalization support for software applications.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in ICU. Please review the
      referenced CVE identifiers for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the
      privileges of the process or cause a Denial of Service condition.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All ICU users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-libs/icu-58.2-r1"
    </code>
    
    <p>Packages which depend on this library may need to be recompiled. Tools
      such as revdep-rebuild may assist in identifying some of these packages.
    </p>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7867">
      CVE-2017-7867
    </uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7868">
      CVE-2017-7868
    </uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-10-03T15:56:43Z">chrisadr</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-10-08T13:30:01Z">chrisadr</metadata>
</glsa>