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CVE-2017-7868 (GCVE-0-2017-7868)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-04-14 04:30 – Updated: 2024-08-05 16:19
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Summary
International Components for Unicode (ICU) for C/C++ before 2017-02-13 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the utf8TextAccess function in common/utext.cpp and the utext_moveIndex32* function.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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Date Public
2017-04-14 00:00
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