Description
International Components for Unicode (ICU) 4.0, 3.6, and other 3.x versions, as used in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 before 10.5.7, iPhone OS 1.0 through 2.2.1, iPhone OS for iPod touch 1.1 through 2.2.1, Fedora 9 and 10, and possibly other operating systems, does not properly handle invalid byte sequences during Unicode conversion, which might allow remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
Published: 2009-05-13
Score: 6.1 Medium
EPSS: 11.6% Moderate
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1889-1 New icu packages correct multibyte sequence parsing
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2009-0162 International Components for Unicode (ICU) 4.0, 3.6, and other 3.x versions, as used in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 before 10.5.7, iPhone OS 1.0 through 2.2.1, iPhone OS for iPod touch 1.1 through 2.2.1, Fedora 9 and 10, and possibly other operating systems, does not properly handle invalid byte sequences during Unicode conversion, which might allow remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-846-1 ICU vulnerability
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Apple Mac Os X Mac Os X Server
Redhat Enterprise Linux
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T04:24:17.594Z

Reserved: 2009-01-16T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2009-0153

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Status : Modified

Published: 2009-05-13T15:30:00.360

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2009-0153

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Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2007-04-17T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2009-0153 - Bugzilla

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