CVE-2007-4770

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2008-01-22
Bugzilla:
429023: CVE-2007-4770 libicu poor back reference validation

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

libicu in International Components for Unicode (ICU) 3.8.1 and earlier attempts to process backreferences to the nonexistent capture group zero (aka \0), which might allow context-dependent attackers to read from, or write to, out-of-bounds memory locations, related to corruption of REStackFrames.

Find out more about CVE-2007-4770 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (icu) RHSA-2008:0090 2008-01-25

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