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RHEL 5 : icu (RHSA-2008:0090)

high Nessus Plugin ID 30091

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated icu packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

The International Components for Unicode (ICU) library provides robust and full-featured Unicode services.

Will Drewry reported multiple flaws in the way libicu processed certain malformed regular expressions. If an application linked against ICU, such as OpenOffice.org, processed a carefully crafted regular expression, it may be possible to execute arbitrary code as the user running the application. (CVE-2007-4770, CVE-2007-4771)

All users of icu should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2007-4770

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2007-4771

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0090

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 30091

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2008-0090.nasl

Version: 1.25

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/27/2008

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 6.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:icu, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libicu-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libicu, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libicu-doc

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/25/2008

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/28/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-4770, CVE-2007-4771

BID: 27455

CWE: 399

RHSA: 2008:0090