712284 – dev-libs/icu: Buffer overflow (CVE-2020-10531)

Bug 712284 - dev-libs/icu: Buffer overflow (CVE-2020-10531)

Summary: dev-libs/icu: Buffer overflow (CVE-2020-10531)

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 710758

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Security
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Security

URL:	https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/co...
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Reported:	2020-03-12 20:03 UTC by Sam James
Modified:	2020-03-15 01:04 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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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 ***