<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="201710-03"> <title>ICU: Multiple vulnerabilities</title> <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in ICU, the worst of which could allow remote code execution. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">icu</product> <announced>2017-10-08</announced> <revised count="1">2017-10-08</revised> <bug>616468</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="dev-libs/icu" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">58.2-r1</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">58.2-r1</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p>ICU is a mature, widely used set of C/C++ and Java libraries providing Unicode and Globalization support for software applications. </p> </background> <description> <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in ICU. Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p>A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or cause a Denial of Service condition. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p> </workaround> <resolution> <p>All ICU users should upgrade to the latest version:</p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/icu-58.2-r1" </code> <p>Packages which depend on this library may need to be recompiled. Tools such as revdep-rebuild may assist in identifying some of these packages. </p> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7867"> CVE-2017-7867 </uri> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7868"> CVE-2017-7868 </uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-10-03T15:56:43Z">chrisadr</metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-10-08T13:30:01Z">chrisadr</metadata> </glsa>