CVE-2020-10531

NameCVE-2020-10531
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in International Components for Unicode (ICU) for C/C++ through 66.1. An integer overflow, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, exists in the UnicodeString::doAppend() function in common/unistr.cpp.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-2151-1, DSA-4646-1
Debian Bugs953747

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
icu (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)52.1-8+deb8u9fixed
stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch57.1-6+deb9u5fixed
buster63.1-6+deb10u3fixed
buster (security), buster (lts)63.1-6+deb10u2fixed
bullseye67.1-7fixed
bookworm72.1-3fixed
sid, trixie72.1-5fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
icusourceexperimental66.1-2
icusourcewheezy(unfixed)end-of-life
icusourcejessie52.1-8+deb8u8DLA-2151-1
icusourcestretch57.1-6+deb9u4DSA-4646-1
icusourcebuster63.1-6+deb10u1DSA-4646-1
icusource(unstable)63.2-3953747

Notes

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1044570 (not public)
Upstream ICU bug: https://unicode-org.atlassian.net/browse/ICU-20958 (private)
Fixed by: https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/commit/b7d08bc04a4296982fcef8b6b8a354a9e4e7afca
https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/pull/971

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