USN-2605-1: ICU vulnerabilities
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2605-1
11th May, 2015
icu vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 15.04
- Ubuntu 14.10
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Summary
ICU could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it processed specially crafted data.
Software description
- icu - International Components for Unicode library
Details
Pedro Ribeiro discovered that ICU incorrectly handled certain memory
operations when processing data. 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.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:
- Ubuntu 15.04:
- libicu52 52.1-8ubuntu0.1
- Ubuntu 14.10:
- libicu52 52.1-6ubuntu0.3
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
- libicu52 52.1-3ubuntu0.3
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.