USN-2605-1: ICU vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 15.04
• Ubuntu 14.10
• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM

Packages

• icu - International Components for Unicode library

Details

Pedro Ribeiro discovered that ICU incorrectly handled certain memory
operations when processing data. If an application using ICU processed
crafted data, an attacker could cause it to crash or potentially execute
arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 15.04

• libicu52 - 52.1-8ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 14.10

• libicu52 - 52.1-6ubuntu0.3

Ubuntu 14.04

• libicu52 - 52.1-3ubuntu0.3

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2014-8146
• CVE-2014-8147