Description
The resolveImplicitLevels function in common/ubidi.c in the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm implementation in ICU4C in International Components for Unicode (ICU) before 55.1 does not properly track directionally isolated pieces of text, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted text.
Published: 2015-05-25
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: 26.3% Moderate
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3323-1 icu security update
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2605-1 ICU vulnerabilities
History

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Icu-project International Components For Unicode
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T13:10:51.019Z

Reserved: 2014-10-10T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2014-8146

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Status : Modified

Published: 2015-05-25T22:59:00.067

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2014-8146

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2015-05-05T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2014-8146 - Bugzilla

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