CVE-2017-7868

Published: Apr 14, 2017Modified: May 13, 2026

7.5

Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 3.6

Source: NVD

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.

Affected (2)

Products: Icu Project: International Components For Unicode · Debian: Debian Linux

Icu Project

1 product

International Components For Unicode

Debian

1 product

Debian Linux

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Icu Project International Components For Unicode	Up to 58.2

Configuration B

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Debian Debian Linux	Version 8.0

Related CWEs

CWE-787

Out-of-bounds Write

The product writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.

References (12)

http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/changeset/39671

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3830

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97674

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=437

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-03

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory

https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/changeset/39671