• ICU vulnerability

    From bugz_ubuntu@21:4/110 to Ubuntu Users on Tuesday, March 17, 2020 12:10:02
    icu vulnerability

    A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
    derivatives:

    * Ubuntu 19.10
    * Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
    * Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
    * Ubuntu 14.04 ESM
    * Ubuntu 12.04 ESM

    Summary

    ICU could be made to execute arbitrary code if it received a
    specially crafted string.

    Software Description

    * icu - International Components for Unicode library

    Details

    Andr** Bargull discovered that ICU incorrectly handled certain
    strings. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute
    arbitrary code.

    Update instructions

    The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the
    following package versions:

    Ubuntu 19.10
    libicu63 - 63.2-2ubuntu0.1

    Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
    libicu60 - 60.2-3ubuntu3.1

    Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
    libicu55 - 55.1-7ubuntu0.5

    Ubuntu 14.04 ESM
    libicu52 - 52.1-3ubuntu0.8+esm1

    Ubuntu 12.04 ESM
    libicu48 - 4.8.1.1-3ubuntu0.10

    To update your system, please follow these instructions:
    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

    In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary
    changes.

    References

    * CVE-2020-10531

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