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icu — security advisory
libicu in International Components for Unicode (ICU) 3.8.1 and earlier attempts to process backreferences to the nonexistent capture group zero (aka \0), which might allow context-dependent attackers to read from, or write to, out-of-bounds memory locations, related to corruption of REStackFrames.
- Products
- icu
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 3.8-6
- CVEs
- CVE-2007-4770
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 15:47 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
libicu in International Components for Unicode (ICU) 3.8.1 and earlier attempts to process backreferences to the nonexistent capture group zero (aka \0), which might allow context-dependent attackers to read from, or write to, out-of-bounds memory locations, related to corruption of REStackFrames.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2007-4770
icu
Fixed versions: 3.8-6
icu
Fixed versions: 3.8-6
icu
Fixed versions: 3.8-6
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2007-4770",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
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"summary": "libicu in International Components for Unicode (ICU) 3.8.1 and earlier attempts to process backreferences to the nonexistent capture group zero (aka \\0), which might allow context-dependent attackers to read from, or write to, out-of-bounds memory locations, related to corruption of REStackFrames.",
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"package": {
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},
"ecosystem_specific": {
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}
}
],
"modified": "2026-10-21T17:47:39.338132725Z",
"provider": "osv",
"upstream": [
"CVE-2007-4770"
],
"references": [
"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-4770"
]
},
"related_cves": [
{
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"evidence": "/upstream"
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],
"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": null
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 398426,
"published_at": "2008-01-29T00:00:00+00:00"
}