glsa-201402-14.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201402-14">
  <title>International Components for Unicode: Denial of Service</title>
  <synopsis>Two vulnerabilities in International Components for Unicode might
    allow remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service condition.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">icu</product>
  <announced>2014-02-10</announced>
  <revised count="1">2014-02-10</revised>
  <bug>460426</bug>
  <bug>486948</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-libs/icu" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">51.2-r1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">51.2-r1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>International Components for Unicode is a 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 International
      Components for Unicode. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced
      below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition.</p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All International Components for Unicode users should upgrade to the
      latest version:
    </p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-libs/icu-51.2-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-2013-0900">CVE-2013-0900</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-2924">CVE-2013-2924</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2013-11-15T07:06:44Z">
    BlueKnight
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2014-02-10T10:38:54Z">
    pinkbyte
  </metadata>
</glsa>