CVE - CVE-2014-8146

CVE-ID
CVE-2014-8146	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
The resolveImplicitLevels function in common/ubidi.c in the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm implementation in ICU4C in International Components for Unicode (ICU) before 55.1 does not properly track directionally isolated pieces of text, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted text.
References
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APPLE:APPLE-SA-2015-09-16-1 URL:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00001.html APPLE:APPLE-SA-2015-09-16-3 URL:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00003.html APPLE:APPLE-SA-2015-09-21-1 URL:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00005.html APPLE:APPLE-SA-2015-09-30-3 URL:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00008.html BID:74457 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74457 CERT-VN:VU#602540 URL:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/602540 CONFIRM:http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/changeset/37162 CONFIRM:http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html CONFIRM:http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2015-2367953.html CONFIRM:https://support.apple.com/HT205212 CONFIRM:https://support.apple.com/HT205213 CONFIRM:https://support.apple.com/HT205221 CONFIRM:https://support.apple.com/HT205267 DEBIAN:DSA-3323 URL:http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3323 FULLDISC:20150505 [CVE-2014-8146/8147] - ICU heap and integer overflows / I-C-U-FAIL URL:http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/May/14 GENTOO:GLSA-201507-04 URL:https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-04 MISC:https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pedrib/PoC/master/generic/i-c-u-fail.txt MISC:https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html MLIST:[oss-security] 20150505 [CVE-2014-8146/8147] - ICU heap and integer overflows / I-C-U-FAIL URL:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/05/6
Assigning CNA
Red Hat, Inc.
Date Record Created
20141010	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20141010)
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Proposed (Legacy)
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