CVE-2016-7415

Publication date 17 September 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the Locale class in common/locid.cpp in International Components for Unicode (ICU) through 57.1 for C/C++ allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long locale string.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
icu 17.04 zesty
Not affected
16.10 yakkety
Fixed 57.1-4ubuntu0.1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 55.1-7ubuntu0.1
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 52.1-3ubuntu0.5
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 4.8.1.1-3ubuntu0.7

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 9.8 · Critical
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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