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RHEL 5 : icu (RHSA-2009:1122)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 39525
Synopsis
The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.Description
Updated icu packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.
The International Components for Unicode (ICU) library provides robust and full-featured Unicode services.
A flaw was found in the way ICU processed certain, invalid byte sequences during Unicode conversion. If an application used ICU to decode malformed, multibyte character data, it may have been possible to bypass certain content protection mechanisms, or display information in a manner misleading to the user. (CVE-2009-0153)
All users of icu should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve this issue.
Solution
Update the affected packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 39525
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2009-1122.nasl
Version: 1.24
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
Published: 6/26/2009
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: Low
Score: 3.0
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.3
Temporal Score: 3.2
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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:5.3, 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: 6/25/2009
Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/13/2009
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2009-0153