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CVE-2017-7867

icu: Heap-buffer overflow in utext_setNativeIndex function

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.3

CVSS 3.0

Review impact separately from score.

Published · February 13, 2017

Updated · May 13, 2026

Description

A vulnerability was found in the International Components for Unicode (ICU). Specially crafted invalid utf-8 text, when parsed or manipulated using particular functions in libicu, could cause out-of-bounds heap reads and writes potentially leading to a crash, memory disclosure, or possibly code execution.

Statement

Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Moderate security impact. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

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 · 5.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

CWE-122 · Heap-based Buffer Overflow