Debian DLA-283-1 : icu security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 85050

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

A vulnerability has been found in the International Components for Unicode (ICU) library :

CVE-2015-4760

It was discovered that ICU Layout Engine was missing multiple boundary checks. These could lead to buffer overflows and memory corruption. A specially crafted file could cause an application using ICU to parse untrusted font files to crash and, possibly, execute arbitrary code.

For the squeeze distribution, these issues have been fixed in version 4.4.1-8+squeeze4 of icu.

We recommend to upgrade your icu packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 85050

File Name: debian_DLA-283.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 7/29/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libicu44, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:lib32icu44, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libicu44-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:icu-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:lib32icu-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libicu-dev

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/28/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-4760

BID: 75784

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