Integer overflow in icu - CVE-2020-10531
Published: March 17, 2020 / Updated: June 3, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU26149
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-10531
CWE-ID: CWE-190
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: ICU - International Components for Unicode
Affected software:
icu
icu
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to integer overflow in UnicodeString::doAppend() function in common/unistr.cpp. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted string to the application that is using the vulnerable library, trigger integer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
How to mitigate CVE-2020-10531
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0738
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1044570
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/02/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_24.html
- https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/deps/icu/+/9f4020916eb1f28f3666f018fdcbe6c9a37f0e08
- https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/commit/b7d08bc04a4296982fcef8b6b8a354a9e4e7afca
- https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/pull/971
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-15