Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in International Components for Unicode, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.
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TITLE:
International Components for Unicode Conversion Error Security Bypass
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA35436
VERIFY ADVISORY:
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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in International Components for
Unicode, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain
security restrictions.
A conversion error exists in ICU when handling certain character
encodings. This can potentially be exploited bypass content filters
and may lead to cross-site scripting and disclosure of sensitive
information.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 4.0.1 or later.
http://icu-project.org/download/4.0.html
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
First reported in an Apple Mac OS X Security Update crediting Chris
Weber of Casaba Security.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/ticket/5691
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3549
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