CVE-2008-1036
The International Components for Unicode (ICU) library in Apple Mac OS X before 10.5.3, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, and other operating systems omits some invalid character sequences during conversion
02 Description
The International Components for Unicode (ICU) library in Apple Mac OS X before 10.5.3, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, and other operating systems omits some invalid character sequences during conversion
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 3.19% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 87.9% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2008-06-02 14:00Z18 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 08:08Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2008-02-26
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 3dae7e4c7dee2401534cff9234ac46d4145efd162629dc43a8129811dfa73171
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2009:0296http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0296.html
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.commacosx-icu-security-bypass(42717)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42717
- secunia.com34777http://secunia.com/advisories/34777
- www.securityfocus.com29488http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29488
- securitytracker.com1020139http://securitytracker.com/id?1020139
- www.us-cert.govTA08-150Ahttp://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-150A.html
- secunia.com30430http://secunia.com/advisories/30430
- lists.apple.comAPPLE-SA-2008-05-28http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//May/msg00001.html
- www.debian.orgDSA-1762http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1762
- secunia.com34290http://secunia.com/advisories/34290
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:10824https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10824
- www.vupen.comADV-2008-1697http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1697
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-747-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-747-1
- www.securityfocus.com29412http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29412
- wiki.rpath.comhttp://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0064
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- icu Fixed in 4.0.1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- icu Fixed in 4.0.1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- icu Fixed in 4.0.1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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