CVE-2016-7415

icu: Stack based buffer overflow in locid.cpp

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

6.5

CVSS 3.0

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Published · September 3, 2016

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the Locale class in common/locid.cpp in International Components for Unicode (ICU) through 57.1 for C/C++ allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long locale string.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

CVSS 2.0 · 6.4
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

CWE-121 · Stack-based Buffer Overflow