CVE-2009-0153

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    CVE-2009-0153

    Published: 13 May 2009Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: International Components for Unicode (ICU) 4.0, 3.6, and other 3.x versions, as used in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 before 10.5.7, iPhone OS 1.0 through 2.2.1, iPhone OS for iPod touch 1.1 through 2.2.1, Fedora 9 and 10, and possibly other operating systems, does not properly handle invalid byte sequences during Unicode conversion, which might allow remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

    References: http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.html, http://secunia.com/advisories/35074, http://secunia.com/advisories/35379, http://secunia.com/advisories/35436, http://secunia.com/advisories/35498, http://secunia.com/advisories/35584, http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3549, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1297, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1522, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1621, http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.html, http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3549, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503071, http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/ticket/5691, http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Jun/msg00005.html, http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/jun/msg00002.html, http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3613, http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3639, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1122.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34926, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34974, http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-133A.html, https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50488, https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11366, https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg00336.html, https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg00478.html

    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
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