Mageia alert MGASA-2017-0116 (icu)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2017-0116: Updated icu packages fix security vulnerability 
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Mon, 24 Apr 2017 09:28:02 +0200
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MGASA-2017-0116 - Updated icu packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 24 Apr 2017
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0116.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 5
CVE: CVE-2017-7867,
     CVE-2017-7868

Description:
It was discovered that icu did not correctly validate its input. An
attacker could use this problem to trigger an out-of-bound write through a
heap-based buffer overflow, thus causing a denial of service via
application crash, or potential execution of arbitrary code
(CVE-2017-7867, CVE-2017-7868).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20706
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3830
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7867
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7868

SRPMS:
- 5/core/icu-53.1-12.7.mga5