CVE-2007-4770

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    CVE-2007-4770

    Published: 29 Jan 2008Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: libicu in International Components for Unicode (ICU) 3.8.1 and earlier attempts to process backreferences to the nonexistent capture group zero (aka \0), which might allow context-dependent attackers to read from, or write to, out-of-bounds memory locations, related to corruption of REStackFrames.

    References: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00001.html, http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0090.html, http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-20.xml, http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-16.xml, http://securitytracker.com/id?1019269, http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=d03a2ffb0801221538x68825e42xb4a4aaf0fcccecbd%40mail.gmail.com, http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0043, http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1511, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:026, http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2008_23_openoffice.html, http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2007-4770.html, http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2007-5745.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27455, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-591-1, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0282, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0807/references, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1375/references, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=429023, https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39938, https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2199, https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11172, https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5507, https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00896.html, https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00921.html, http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=d03a2ffb0801221538x68825e42xb4a4aaf0fcccecbd%40mail.gmail.com, http://secunia.com/advisories/28575, http://secunia.com/advisories/28615, http://secunia.com/advisories/28669, http://secunia.com/advisories/28783, http://secunia.com/advisories/29194, http://secunia.com/advisories/29242, http://secunia.com/advisories/29291, http://secunia.com/advisories/29294, http://secunia.com/advisories/29333, http://secunia.com/advisories/29852, http://secunia.com/advisories/29910, http://secunia.com/advisories/29987, http://secunia.com/advisories/30179, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=429023, http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=d03a2ffb0801221538x68825e42xb4a4aaf0fcccecbd%40mail.gmail.com, http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-231641-1, http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-233922-1, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487677/100/0/threaded

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High