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Bug 589814 (CVE-2016-6293)

Summary: <dev-libs/icu-58.1: Out-of-bounds access in uloc_acceptLanguageFromHTTP (CVE-2016-6293)
Product: Gentoo Security Reporter: Agostino Sarubbo <ago>
Component: VulnerabilitiesAssignee: Gentoo Security <security>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: major CC: nobrowser
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1360339
See Also: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=599094
Whiteboard: A2 [glsa cve]
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on: 594494, 603792    
Bug Blocks:    

Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2016-07-27 07:58:28 UTC
From ${URL} :

It was found that uloc_acceptLanguageFromHTTP function in common/uloc.cpp does not ensure that there is a '\0' character at the end of a certain 
temporary array that leads to out of bounds access, possibly causing DoS.

CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q3/137


@maintainer(s): after the bump, in case we need to stabilize the package, please let us know if it is ready for the stabilization or not.
Comment 1 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2016-11-18 23:25:21 UTC
This was fixed in v58.1 (see http://site.icu-project.org/security) which is available in Gentoo repository since https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/dev-libs/icu?id=b4293900b8325feb1be4ad127dd4823ed022985d

Stabilization will happen in bug 594494.
Comment 2 Coacher 2016-12-01 22:47:34 UTC
*** Bug 601398 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Andreas K. Hüttel archtester gentoo-dev 2017-01-15 19:58:15 UTC
Cleanup done. Office out.
Comment 4 Andreas K. Hüttel archtester gentoo-dev 2017-01-15 21:29:24 UTC
Had to revert the cleanup since it depends on bug 603792
Comment 5 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2017-01-16 18:35:35 UTC
Added to existing GLSA request.

Cleanup will happen as part of bug 594494.
Comment 6 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev 2017-01-24 10:47:22 UTC
This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201701-58 at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-58
by GLSA coordinator Aaron Bauman (b-man).