CVE-2014-8146

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 11
Modified
Published: 25 May 2015, 22:00
Last modified:06 Aug 2024, 13:10

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
45/100
CVSS Score
7.5 HIGH
v2.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
25.81% HIGH
26% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
3 found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

25 May 2015, 22:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
06 Aug 2024, 13:10
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v2.0•HIGH•Score: 7.5AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 25.81%• Percentile: 96%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-119•Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

    The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.

Affected Systems

  • apple•iphone_os

    ≤ 8.2

  • apple•itunes

    ≤ 12.1.3

  • apple•mac_os_x

    ≤ 10.10.4

  • apple•watchos

    ≤ 1.0.1

  • icu-project•international_components_for_unicode

    < 55.1

References (19)