CVE-2017-14952

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-10-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-415

Description

Double free in i18n/zonemeta.cpp in International Components for Unicode (ICU) for C/C++ through 59.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted string, aka a "redundant UVector entry clean up function call" issue.

Affected products

Icu-Project International Components For Unicode: through 59.1

References

http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/changeset/40324/trunk/icu4c/source/i18n/zonemeta.cpp
http://www.sourcebrella.com/blog/double-free-vulnerability-international-components-unicode-icu/
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html
http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/changeset/40324/trunk/icu4c/source/i18n/zonemeta.cpp
http://www.sourcebrella.com/blog/double-free-vulnerability-international-components-unicode-icu/
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html

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