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Secunia Advisory SA35436

International Components for Unicode Conversion Error Security Bypass
Secunia Advisory SA35436
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Release Date 2009-06-17
   
Popularity 2,240 views
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact Security Bypass
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Software:
International Components for Unicode (ICU) 4.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2009-0153 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in International Components for Unicode, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.

A conversion error exists in ICU when handling certain character encodings. This can potentially be exploited bypass content filters and may lead to cross-site scripting and disclosure of sensitive information.


Solution
Update to version 4.0.1 or later.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
First reported in an Apple Mac OS X Security Update crediting Chris Weber of Casaba Security.

Original Advisory
http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/ticket/5691
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3549

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