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AlmaLinux 8 : icu (ALSA-2020:0902)

high Nessus Plugin ID 157714

Synopsis

The remote AlmaLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2020:0902 advisory.

 - 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)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2020-0902.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 157714

File Name: alma_linux_ALSA-2020-0902.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Published: 2/9/2022

Updated: 2/14/2022

Supported Sensors: 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:alma:linux:libicu-doc, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:libicu-devel, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:libicu, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:icu

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/19/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/12/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-10531