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CVE-2014-8146

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-119 Buffer Errors
Publication date:
25/05/2015
Last modified:
12/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.50 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
7.50
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:apple:itunes:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 12.1.3 (including)
cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 8.2 (including)
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 10.10.4 (including)
cpe:2.3:o:apple:watchos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1.0.1 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:icu-project:international_components_for_unicode:*:*:*:*:*:c\/c\+\+:*:* 55.1 (excluding)

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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