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openSUSE Security Update : icu (icu-1028)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 40651

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

icu does not properly handle invalid byte sequences during Unicode conversion. Remote attackers could potentially exploit that to conduct conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks (CVE-2009-0153).

Solution

Update the affected icu packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508070

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 40651

File Name: suse_11_1_icu-090622.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/20/2009

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: 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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libicu-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libicu, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libicu-devel, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:icu, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:icu-data, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libicu-devel-32bit

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/22/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0153

CWE: 79