USN-3610-1: ICU vulnerability
28 March 2018
ICU could be made to crash if it received specially crafted input.
Releases
Packages
- icu - International Components for Unicode library
Details
It was discovered that ICU incorrectly handled certain calendars. If an
application using ICU processed crafted data, a remote attacker could
possibly cause it to crash, leading to a denial of service.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 17.10
Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 14.04
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.