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Debian DSA-1762-1 : icu - insufficient input sanitising

medium Nessus Plugin ID 36076

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

It was discovered that icu, the internal components for Unicode, did not properly sanitise invalid encoded data, which could lead to cross-site scripting attacks.

Solution

Upgrade the icu packages.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 3.6-2etch2.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 3.8.1-3+lenny1.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1762

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 36076

File Name: debian_DSA-1762.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/3/2009

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:icu, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 4/2/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-1036

CWE: 79

DSA: 1762