libicu in International Components for Unicode (ICU) 3.8.1 and earlier...

Vulnerability Description

libicu in International Components for Unicode (ICU) 3.8.1 and earlier attempts to process backreferences to the nonexistent capture group zero (aka \0), which might allow context-dependent attackers to read from, or write to, out-of-bounds memory locations, related to corruption of REStackFrames.

References

• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11172
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-233922-1
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28615
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5507
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29852
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28783
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29291
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2008_23_openoffice.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29242
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1019269
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-16.xml
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29987
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00001.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27455
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29294
• http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2007-4770.html
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-20.xml
• http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1511
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39938
• http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0043
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0090.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29333
• https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2199
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-591-1
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:026
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-231641-1
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1375/references
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=429023
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29194
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30179
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00921.html
• http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2007-5745.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28575
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487677/100/0/threaded
• http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=d03a2ffb0801221538x68825e42xb4a4aaf0fcccecbd%40mail.gmail.com
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28669
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0807/references
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29910
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00896.html
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0282