CVE-2007-4770

libicu poor back reference validation

Published Jan 28, 2008 CVSS 2.0 · 6.8 Medium EPSS 2.9% KEV · Not listed
Description
libicu in International Components for Unicode (ICU) 3.8.1 and earlier attempts to process backreferences to the nonexistent capture group zero (aka \0), which might allow context-dependent attackers to read from, or write to, out-of-bounds memory locations, related to corruption of REStackFrames.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1511-1 New libicu packages fix multiple problems
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2007-4751 libicu in International Components for Unicode (ICU) 3.8.1 and earlier attempts to process backreferences to the nonexistent capture group zero (aka \0), which might allow context-dependent attackers to read from, or write to, out-of-bounds memory locations, related to corruption of REStackFrames.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-591-1 libicu vulnerabilities
References
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http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00001.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0090.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28575 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28615 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28669 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28783 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29194 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29242 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29291 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29294 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29333 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29852 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29910 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29987 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/30179 cve-icon cve-icon
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-20.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-16.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://securitytracker.com/id?1019269 cve-icon cve-icon
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=d03a2ffb0801221538x68825e42xb4a4aaf0fcccecbd%40mail.gmail.com cve-icon cve-icon
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-231641-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-233922-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0043 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1511 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:026 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2008_23_openoffice.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2007-4770.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2007-5745.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487677/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27455 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-591-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0282 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0807/references cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1375/references cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=429023 cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39938 cve-icon cve-icon
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2199 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-4770 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11172 cve-icon cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5507 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-4770 cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00896.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00921.html cve-icon cve-icon
History

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 3:08 PM
Reserved
Sep 10, 2007, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Jan 29, 2008, 12:00 AM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 10:44 PM
Severity
Important
Public date
Jan 22, 2008, 12:00 AM