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icu — security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2020-10531

An issue was discovered in International Components for Unicode (ICU) for C/C++ through 66.1. An integer overflow, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, exists in the UnicodeString::doAppend() function in common/unistr.cpp.

Products
icu
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
63.2-3
CVEs
CVE-2020-10531
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 12:24 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2020-10531

core-osv · Original source

Published 12 Mar 2020, 19:15 UTC

An issue was discovered in International Components for Unicode (ICU) for C/C++ through 66.1. An integer overflow, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, exists in the UnicodeString::doAppend() function in common/unistr.cpp.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-10531

icu

Fixed versions: 63.2-3

icu

Fixed versions: 63.2-3

icu

Fixed versions: 63.2-3

Complete source record
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