Advisories ยป MGASA-2013-0315

Updated icu packages fix multiple security vulnerbilities

Publication date: 25 Oct 2013
Modification date: 25 Oct 2013
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 2
CVE: CVE-2013-0900 , CVE-2013-2924

Description

Updated icu packages fix security vulnerabilities:

It was discovered that ICU contained a race condition affecting multi-
threaded applications. If an application using ICU processed crafted data,
an attacker could cause it to crash or potentially execute arbitrary code
with the privileges of the user invoking the program (CVE-2013-0900).

It was discovered that ICU incorrectly handled memory operations. If an
application using ICU processed crafted data, an attacker could cause it to
crash or potentially execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user
invoking the program (CVE-2013-2924).

References

SRPMS

2/core