// For flags

CVE-2007-4770

libicu poor back reference validation

Severity Score

6.8
*CVSS v2

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

0
*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

-
*KEV

Decision

-
*SSVC
Descriptions

libicu in International Components for Unicode (ICU) 3.8.1 and earlier attempts to process backreferences to the nonexistent capture group zero (aka \0), which might allow context-dependent attackers to read from, or write to, out-of-bounds memory locations, related to corruption of REStackFrames.

libicu de International Components for Unicode (ICU) 3.8.1 y versiones anteriores intenta procesar referencias a un grupo de captura no existente cero (también conocido como \0), lo cual podría permitir a atacantes locales o remotos dependientes del contexto leer desde, ó escribir en, direcciones de memoria fuera de los límites, relativo a corrupción de REStackFrames.

*Credits: N/A
CVSS Scores
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial
* Common Vulnerability Scoring System
SSVC
  • Decision:-
Exploitation
-
Automatable
-
Tech. Impact
-
* Organization's Worst-case Scenario
Timeline
  • 2007-09-10 CVE Reserved
  • 2008-01-26 CVE Published
  • 2024-08-07 CVE Updated
  • 2024-10-24 EPSS Updated
  • ---------- Exploited in Wild
  • ---------- KEV Due Date
  • ---------- First Exploit
CWE
  • CWE-399: Resource Management Errors
CAPEC
References (28)
URL Tag Source
http://securitytracker.com/id?1019269 Third Party Advisory
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0043 Third Party Advisory
http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2007-4770.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2007-5745.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487677/100/0/threaded Mailing List
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27455 Third Party Advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0282 Third Party Advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0807/references Third Party Advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1375/references Third Party Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39938 Third Party Advisory
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2199 Third Party Advisory
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11172 Signature
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5507 Signature
URL Date SRC
URL Date SRC
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=d03a2ffb0801221538x68825e42xb4a4aaf0fcccecbd%40mail.gmail.com 2018-10-15
URL Date SRC
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00001.html 2018-10-15
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0090.html 2018-10-15
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-20.xml 2018-10-15
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-16.xml 2018-10-15
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-231641-1 2018-10-15
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-233922-1 2018-10-15
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1511 2018-10-15
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:026 2018-10-15
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2008_23_openoffice.html 2018-10-15
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-591-1 2018-10-15
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=429023 2008-01-25
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00896.html 2018-10-15
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00921.html 2018-10-15
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2007-4770 2008-01-25
Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions
Vendor Product Version Other Status
Vendor Product Version Other Status <-- --> Vendor Product Version Other Status
Icu-project
Search vendor "Icu-project"
 International Components For Unicode
Search vendor "Icu-project" for product "International Components For Unicode"
 <= 3.8.1
Search vendor "Icu-project" for product "International Components For Unicode" and version " <= 3.8.1"
c\/c\+\+
Affected