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Red Hat Security Advisory 2011-1815-01

Red Hat Security Advisory 2011-1815-01
Posted Dec 14, 2011
Authored by Red Hat | Site access.redhat.com

Red Hat Security Advisory 2011-1815-01 - The International Components for Unicode library provides robust and full-featured Unicode services. A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way ICU performed variant canonicalization for some locale identifiers. If a specially-crafted locale representation was opened in an application linked against ICU, it could cause the application to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. All users of ICU should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to resolve this issue. All applications linked against ICU must be restarted for this update to take effect.

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Red Hat Security Advisory 2011-1815-01

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Moderate: icu security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2011:1815-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1815.html
Issue date: 2011-12-13
CVE Names: CVE-2011-4599
=====================================================================

1. Summary:

Updated icu packages that fix one security issue are now available for
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate
security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,
which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in
the References section.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) - i386, ia64, ppc, s390x, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) - i386, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6) - i386, noarch, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6) - x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6) - noarch, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - i386, ppc64, s390x, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6) - i386, noarch, ppc64, s390x, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - i386, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6) - i386, noarch, x86_64

3. Description:

The International Components for Unicode (ICU) library provides robust and
full-featured Unicode services.

A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way ICU performed
variant canonicalization for some locale identifiers. If a
specially-crafted locale representation was opened in an application
linked against ICU, it could cause the application to crash or, possibly,
execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the
application. (CVE-2011-4599)

All users of ICU should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a
backported patch to resolve this issue. All applications linked against
ICU must be restarted for this update to take effect.

4. Solution:

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

5. Bugs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

765812 - CVE-2011-4599 icu: Stack-based buffer overflow by canonicalizing the given localeID

6. Package List:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client):

Source:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Client/en/os/SRPMS/icu-3.6-5.16.1.src.rpm

i386:
icu-3.6-5.16.1.i386.rpm
icu-debuginfo-3.6-5.16.1.i386.rpm
libicu-3.6-5.16.1.i386.rpm
libicu-doc-3.6-5.16.1.i386.rpm

x86_64:
icu-3.6-5.16.1.x86_64.rpm
icu-debuginfo-3.6-5.16.1.i386.rpm
icu-debuginfo-3.6-5.16.1.x86_64.rpm
libicu-3.6-5.16.1.i386.rpm
libicu-3.6-5.16.1.x86_64.rpm
libicu-doc-3.6-5.16.1.x86_64.rpm

RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client):

Source:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Client/en/os/SRPMS/icu-3.6-5.16.1.src.rpm

i386:
icu-debuginfo-3.6-5.16.1.i386.rpm
libicu-devel-3.6-5.16.1.i386.rpm

x86_64:
icu-debuginfo-3.6-5.16.1.i386.rpm
icu-debuginfo-3.6-5.16.1.x86_64.rpm
libicu-devel-3.6-5.16.1.i386.rpm
libicu-devel-3.6-5.16.1.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server):

Source:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Server/en/os/SRPMS/icu-3.6-5.16.1.src.rpm

i386:
icu-3.6-5.16.1.i386.rpm
icu-debuginfo-3.6-5.16.1.i386.rpm
libicu-3.6-5.16.1.i386.rpm
libicu-devel-3.6-5.16.1.i386.rpm
libicu-doc-3.6-5.16.1.i386.rpm

ia64:
icu-3.6-5.16.1.ia64.rpm
icu-debuginfo-3.6-5.16.1.ia64.rpm
libicu-3.6-5.16.1.ia64.rpm
libicu-devel-3.6-5.16.1.ia64.rpm
libicu-doc-3.6-5.16.1.ia64.rpm

ppc:
icu-3.6-5.16.1.ppc.rpm
icu-debuginfo-3.6-5.16.1.ppc.rpm
icu-debuginfo-3.6-5.16.1.ppc64.rpm
libicu-3.6-5.16.1.ppc.rpm
libicu-3.6-5.16.1.ppc64.rpm
libicu-devel-3.6-5.16.1.ppc.rpm
libicu-devel-3.6-5.16.1.ppc64.rpm
libicu-doc-3.6-5.16.1.ppc.rpm

s390x:
icu-3.6-5.16.1.s390x.rpm
icu-debuginfo-3.6-5.16.1.s390.rpm
icu-debuginfo-3.6-5.16.1.s390x.rpm
libicu-3.6-5.16.1.s390.rpm
libicu-3.6-5.16.1.s390x.rpm
libicu-devel-3.6-5.16.1.s390.rpm
libicu-devel-3.6-5.16.1.s390x.rpm
libicu-doc-3.6-5.16.1.s390x.rpm

x86_64:
icu-3.6-5.16.1.x86_64.rpm
icu-debuginfo-3.6-5.16.1.i386.rpm
icu-debuginfo-3.6-5.16.1.x86_64.rpm
libicu-3.6-5.16.1.i386.rpm
libicu-3.6-5.16.1.x86_64.rpm
libicu-devel-3.6-5.16.1.i386.rpm
libicu-devel-3.6-5.16.1.x86_64.rpm
libicu-doc-3.6-5.16.1.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):

Source:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Client/en/os/SRPMS/icu-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.src.rpm

i386:
icu-debuginfo-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.i686.rpm
libicu-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.i686.rpm

x86_64:
icu-debuginfo-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.i686.rpm
icu-debuginfo-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.x86_64.rpm
libicu-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.i686.rpm
libicu-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6):

Source:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Client/en/os/SRPMS/icu-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.src.rpm

i386:
icu-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.i686.rpm
icu-debuginfo-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.i686.rpm
libicu-devel-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.i686.rpm

noarch:
libicu-doc-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.noarch.rpm

x86_64:
icu-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.x86_64.rpm
icu-debuginfo-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.i686.rpm
icu-debuginfo-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.x86_64.rpm
libicu-devel-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.i686.rpm
libicu-devel-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6):

Source:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6ComputeNode/en/os/SRPMS/icu-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.src.rpm

x86_64:
icu-debuginfo-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.i686.rpm
icu-debuginfo-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.x86_64.rpm
libicu-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.i686.rpm
libicu-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6):

Source:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6ComputeNode/en/os/SRPMS/icu-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.src.rpm

noarch:
libicu-doc-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.noarch.rpm

x86_64:
icu-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.x86_64.rpm
icu-debuginfo-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.i686.rpm
icu-debuginfo-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.x86_64.rpm
libicu-devel-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.i686.rpm
libicu-devel-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6):

Source:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Server/en/os/SRPMS/icu-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.src.rpm

i386:
icu-debuginfo-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.i686.rpm
libicu-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.i686.rpm

ppc64:
icu-debuginfo-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.ppc.rpm
icu-debuginfo-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.ppc64.rpm
libicu-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.ppc.rpm
libicu-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.ppc64.rpm

s390x:
icu-debuginfo-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.s390.rpm
icu-debuginfo-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.s390x.rpm
libicu-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.s390.rpm
libicu-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.s390x.rpm

x86_64:
icu-debuginfo-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.i686.rpm
icu-debuginfo-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.x86_64.rpm
libicu-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.i686.rpm
libicu-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6):

Source:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Server/en/os/SRPMS/icu-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.src.rpm

i386:
icu-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.i686.rpm
icu-debuginfo-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.i686.rpm
libicu-devel-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.i686.rpm

noarch:
libicu-doc-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.noarch.rpm

ppc64:
icu-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.ppc64.rpm
icu-debuginfo-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.ppc.rpm
icu-debuginfo-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.ppc64.rpm
libicu-devel-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.ppc.rpm
libicu-devel-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.ppc64.rpm

s390x:
icu-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.s390x.rpm
icu-debuginfo-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.s390.rpm
icu-debuginfo-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.s390x.rpm
libicu-devel-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.s390.rpm
libicu-devel-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.s390x.rpm

x86_64:
icu-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.x86_64.rpm
icu-debuginfo-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.i686.rpm
icu-debuginfo-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.x86_64.rpm
libicu-devel-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.i686.rpm
libicu-devel-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6):

Source:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Workstation/en/os/SRPMS/icu-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.src.rpm

i386:
icu-debuginfo-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.i686.rpm
libicu-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.i686.rpm

x86_64:
icu-debuginfo-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.i686.rpm
icu-debuginfo-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.x86_64.rpm
libicu-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.i686.rpm
libicu-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6):

Source:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Workstation/en/os/SRPMS/icu-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.src.rpm

i386:
icu-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.i686.rpm
icu-debuginfo-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.i686.rpm
libicu-devel-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.i686.rpm

noarch:
libicu-doc-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.noarch.rpm

x86_64:
icu-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.x86_64.rpm
icu-debuginfo-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.i686.rpm
icu-debuginfo-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.x86_64.rpm
libicu-devel-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.i686.rpm
libicu-devel-4.2.1-9.1.el6_2.x86_64.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/#package

7. References:

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2011-4599.html
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

8. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

Copyright 2011 Red Hat, Inc.
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