Security Bulletin
Summary
International Components for Unicode (ICU) is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the Locale class in common/locid.cpp. By sending an overly long string, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2016-7415
DESCRIPTION: International Components for Unicode (ICU) is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the Locale class in common/locid.cpp. By sending an overly long string, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/117035 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)
CVEID: CVE-2016-6293
DESCRIPTION: International Components for Unicode (ICU) could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an out-of-bounds read in the uloc_acceptLanguageFromHTTP function. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a call with a long httpAcceptLanguage argument to execute arbitrary code on the system. Note: This vulnerability also affect PHP.
CVSS Base Score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/115536 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Affected Products and Versions
IBM eDiscovery Manager Version 2.2.2
Remediation/Fixes
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Product | VRM | Remediation |
| IBM eDiscovery Manager | 2.2.2 | Use IBM eDiscovery Manager 2.2.2.2 Interim Fix IF0003 available at https://www-945.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/ |
Workarounds and Mitigations
None. Install the interim fix.
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References
Change History
March 31, 2017: Original version published
*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.
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Document Information
Modified date:
17 June 2018
UID
swg21996918