Bug 464168 (CVE-2008-1036)

Summary: CVE-2008-1036 ICU: Invalid character sequences omission during conversion of some character encodings (XSS attack possible)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: bressers, caolanm, djorm, kreilly
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Bug Depends On: 467949, 467950, 467974, 467975    
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Here's my backport of the patch for reference none

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2008-09-26 14:53:02 UTC 
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2008-1036 to
the following vulnerability:

International Components for Unicode (ICU) in Apple Mac OS X before 10.5.3 omits some invalid character sequences during conversion of some character encodings, which might allow remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

References:

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//May/msg00001.html

Proposed patch (icu part):

http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/search?q=%22ticket:6175:%22&noquickjump=1&changeset=on

Proposed patch (icu4j part):

http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/search?q=%22ticket:6198:%22&noquickjump=1&changeset=on
Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2008-09-26 14:58:22 UTC 
This issue affects the versions of the ICU package, as shipped with Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5 (icu-3.6.5-11.1.el5), with Red Hat Directory Server 8.0 (icu-3.6-4.el4dsrv and icu-3.6.1 for DS8.0 sparc), with the Red Hat Enterprise MRG product version 1.0 (icu-3.6.5-12.el4), within the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) project (icu-3.6.4.el4.20) and as shipped with the
Fedora releases of 8, 9 and 10.
Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2008-09-26 15:14:07 UTC 
This issue does NOT affect the versions of the icu4j package, as shipped
with Red Hat Application Stacks version 1 update 3 and version 2 update 1,
with JBOSS Enterprise Application Platform release 4.2.0 and 4.3.0 and
as shipped with Fedora releases of 8 and 9.
Comment 8 Caolan McNamara 2008-10-22 11:56:12 UTC 
Created attachment 321139 [details]
Here's my backport of the patch for reference
Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2009-03-12 14:13:18 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2009:0296 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:0296.html
Comment 12 Justin Ross 2011-09-16 19:27:32 UTC 
*** Bug 467974 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***