CVE-2016-7415

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2016-09-17 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the Locale class in common/locid.cpp in International Components for Unicode (ICU) through 57.1 for C/C++ allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long locale string.

Affected products

Icu-Project International Components For Unicode: through 57.1

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/15/10
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93022
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73007
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-58
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html
https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-19
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/15/10
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93022
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73007
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-58
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html
https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-19

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