Debian DLA-545-1 : icu security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 91978

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Several security issues have been identified and corrected in ICU, the International Components for Unicode C and C++ library, in Debian Wheezy.

CVE-2015-2632

Buffer overflow vulnerability.

CVE-2015-4844

Buffer overflow vulnerability.

CVE-2016-0494

Integer signedness/overflow vulnerability.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 4.8.1.1-12+deb7u4.

We recommend that you 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: 91978

File Name: debian_DLA-545.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 7/8/2016

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:libicu48-dbg, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:icu-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libicu48, 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: 7/7/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-2632, CVE-2015-4844, CVE-2016-0494

BID: 75861

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