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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
André 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.