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Gentoo update for icu


Secunia ID

SA50707

CVE-ID

CVE-2011-4599

Release Date

25 Sep 2012

Criticality

Moderately Critical

Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Where

From remote

Impact
System access

This covers vulnerabilities where malicious people are able to gain system access and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of a local user.

Description

Gentoo has issued an update for icu. This fixes a vulnerability, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise an application using the library.

For more information:
SA47146

Solution

Update to "dev-libs/icu-49.1.1-r1" or later.

Original Advisory

GLSA 201209-07:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201209-07.xml