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Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 7.10 / 8.04 LTS / 8.10 : icu vulnerability (USN-747-1)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 36537
Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.Description
It was discovered that libicu did not correctly handle certain invalid encoded data. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing specially crafted data with applications linked against libicu, certain content filters could be bypassed.Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Update the affected packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 36537
File Name: ubuntu_USN-747-1.nasl
Version: 1.13
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Published: 4/23/2009
Updated: 1/19/2021
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 3.0
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.3
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:icu-doc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:lib32icu-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:lib32icu38, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libicu-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libicu34, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libicu34-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libicu36, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libicu36-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libicu38, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libicu38-dbg, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10
Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release
Patch Publication Date: 3/26/2009
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2008-1036