CVE-2009-0153

icu: XSS vulnerability due to improper invalid byte sequence handling

Published May 13, 2009 CVSS 3.0 · 6.1 Medium EPSS 3.7% KEV · Not listed
Description
International Components for Unicode (ICU) 4.0, 3.6, and other 3.x versions, as used in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 before 10.5.7, iPhone OS 1.0 through 2.2.1, iPhone OS for iPod touch 1.1 through 2.2.1, Fedora 9 and 10, and possibly other operating systems, does not properly handle invalid byte sequences during Unicode conversion, which might allow remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1889-1 New icu packages correct multibyte sequence parsing
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2009-0162 International Components for Unicode (ICU) 4.0, 3.6, and other 3.x versions, as used in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 before 10.5.7, iPhone OS 1.0 through 2.2.1, iPhone OS for iPod touch 1.1 through 2.2.1, Fedora 9 and 10, and possibly other operating systems, does not properly handle invalid byte sequences during Unicode conversion, which might allow remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-846-1 ICU vulnerability
History

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 4:24 AM
Reserved
Jan 16, 2009, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
May 13, 2009, 3:30 PM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 11:04 PM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Apr 17, 2007, 12:00 AM