Bug 712284

Summary:	dev-libs/icu: Buffer overflow (CVE-2020-10531)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Sam James <sam>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	office
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/commit/b7d08bc04a4296982fcef8b6b8a354a9e4e7afca
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Description Sam James archtester

2020-03-12 20:03:55 UTC

Description:
"An issue was discovered in International Components for Unicode (ICU) for C/C++ through 66.1. An integer overflow, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, exists in the UnicodeString::doAppend() function in common/unistr.cpp."

PR: https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/pull/971
Patch: https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/commit/b7d08bc04a4296982fcef8b6b8a354a9e4e7afca

Comment 1 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2020-03-15 01:04:37 UTC

Freeing alias.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 710758 ***