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Amazon Linux 2 : icu (ALAS-2020-1418)

high Nessus Plugin ID 136362

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.

Description

An issue was discovered in International Components for Unicode (ICU) for C/C++ through 66.1. An integer overflow, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, exists in the UnicodeString::doAppend() function in common/unistr.cpp. (CVE-2020-10531)

Solution

Run 'yum update icu' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2020-1418.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 136362

File Name: al2_ALAS-2020-1418.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/7/2020

Updated: 3/13/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-10531

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:icu-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:icu, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libicu-doc, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libicu, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libicu-devel

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/6/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/12/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-10531

ALAS: 2020-1418