CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-14952

Double Free

Published: Oct 16, 2017 | Modified: Apr 20, 2025
CVSS 3.x
9.8
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
4.5 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

Double free in i18n/zonemeta.cpp in International Components for Unicode (ICU) for C/C++ through 59.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted string, aka a redundant UVector entry clean up function call issue.

Weakness

The product calls free() twice on the same memory address.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
International_components_for_unicode Icu-project * 59.1 (including)
Icu Ubuntu artful *
Icu Ubuntu devel *
Icu Ubuntu esm-infra-legacy/trusty *
Icu Ubuntu esm-infra/xenial *
Icu Ubuntu trusty *
Icu Ubuntu trusty/esm *
Icu Ubuntu xenial *
Icu Ubuntu zesty *

Potential Mitigations

References