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CVE-2017-7868
Published:April 14, 2017
Updated:May 17, 2026
International Components for Unicode (ICU) for C/C++ before 2017-02-13 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the utf8TextAccess function in common/utext.cpp and the utext_moveIndex32* function.
Related Resources (8)
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3830
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-03
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=437
http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/changeset/39671
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-7868
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-7868
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97674
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CVSS v4
Base Score:
8.7
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
NONE
Vulnerable System Integrity
NONE
Vulnerable System Availability
HIGH
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
7.5
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Weakness Type (CWE)
Out-of-bounds Write
CWE-787
EPSS
Base Score:
1.89