CVE-2016-7415
9.8
CRITICAL · CVSS 3.0 · EPSS 5.8% (pctl 93)
In your normal cycle
Critical by CVSS (9.8), but no sign of active exploitation.
Description
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.
Scoring
| CVSS | 9.8 (CRITICAL, v3.0) |
|---|---|
| Vector | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 5.8% — more likely to be exploited than 93% of all CVEs |
| Weakness | CWE-119 |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | none known |
| Published | 2016-09-17 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-17 |
Affected (1)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| icu-project | international components for unicode |
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/15/10
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93022
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73007
- 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
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/15/10
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93022
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73007
- 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
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