Critical
Security advisory
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.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2016-7415
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:56 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2016-7415
Complete source record
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"references": [
"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",
"https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73007"
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