CVE-2017-7868

Description

International Components for Unicode (ICU) for C/C++ before 2017-02-13 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the utf8TextAccess function in common/utext.cpp and the utext_moveIndex32* function.

Category

7.5
CVSS
Severity: High
CVSS 3.0 •
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 1.54% Top 20%
Vendor Advisory debian.org Vendor Advisory gentoo.org
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97674 third party advisory vdb entry
http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/changeset/39671 patch
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3830 third party advisory vendor advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-03 third party advisory vendor advisory
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=437 third party advisory
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2017-7868?
CVE-2017-7868 has been scored as a high severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2017-7868?
To fix CVE-2017-7868, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2017-7868 being actively exploited in the wild?
It is possible that CVE-2017-7868 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~2% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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