CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-14952

Double Free

Published: Oct 16, 2017 | Modified: Apr 23, 2019
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
Ubuntu

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, potentially leading to modification of unexpected memory locations.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
International_components_for_unicode Icu-project * 59.1

Potential Mitigations

References