S-136: International Components for Unicode Library (libicu) Vulnerabilities

Tags

Special Forums Cybersecurity Security Advisories (RSS) S-136: International Components for Unicode Library (libicu) Vulnerabilities

01-29-2008

Registered User

26,240, 27

Join Date: Sep 2000

Last Activity: 1 August 2008, 3:09 PM EDT

Posts: 26,240

Thanks Given: 0

Thanked 27 Times in 26 Posts

S-136: International Components for Unicode Library (libicu) Vulnerabilities

The International Components for Unicode library (libicu) is prone to multiple memory-corruption vulnerabilities. The risk is MEDIUM. Successfully exploiting these issues allows remote attackers to corrupt and overflow memory and possibly execute remote code. Failed exploit attempts will likely crash applications.

More...

Linux Bot

View Public Profile for Linux Bot

Find all posts by Linux Bot

Previous Thread | Next Thread

1 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Programming

How to display unicode characters / unicode string

I have a stream of characters like "\u8BBE\u5907\u7BA1" and i want to display it. I tried following things already without any luck. 1) printf("%s",L("\u8BBE\u5907\u7BA1")); 2) printf("%lc",0x8BBE); 3) setlocale followed by fwide followed by wprintf 4) also changed the local manually...

LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

unicode::stringprep::prohibited

Unicode::Stringprep::Prohibited(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation		      Unicode::Stringprep::Prohibited(3pm)

NAME

       Unicode::Stringprep::Prohibited - Tables from RFC 3454, Appendix C

SYNOPSIS

	 @Unicode::Stringprep::Prohibited::C11 # Appendix C.1.1
	 @Unicode::Stringprep::Prohibited::C12 # Appendix C.1.2
	 @Unicode::Stringprep::Prohibited::C21 # Appendix C.2.1
	 @Unicode::Stringprep::Prohibited::C22 # Appendix C.2.2
	 @Unicode::Stringprep::Prohibited::C3  # Appendix C.3
	 @Unicode::Stringprep::Prohibited::C4  # Appendix C.4
	 @Unicode::Stringprep::Prohibited::C5  # Appendix C.5
	 @Unicode::Stringprep::Prohibited::C6  # Appendix C.6
	 @Unicode::Stringprep::Prohibited::C7  # Appendix C.7
	 @Unicode::Stringprep::Prohibited::C8  # Appendix C.8
	 @Unicode::Stringprep::Prohibited::C9  # Appendix C.9

DESCRIPTION

       The tables are provided as arrays, which contain pairs of Unicode codepoints (as integers) defining the start and end of a Unicode range.

       This module exports nothing.

AUTHOR

       Claus Faerber <CFAERBER@cpan.org>

LICENSE

       Copyright 2007-2009 Claus Faerber.

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

       Unicode::Stringprep, RFC 3454 (<http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3454.txt>)

perl v5.14.2							    2012-06-30				      Unicode::Stringprep::Prohibited(3pm)

Security Advisories (RSS)