The resolveImplicitLevels function in common/ubidi.c in the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm implementation in ICU4C in International Components for Unicode (ICU) before 55.1 does not properly track directionally isolated pieces of text, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted text.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2015-05-25T22:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T13:10:51.019Z

Reserved: 2014-10-10T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2014-8146

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2015-05-25T22:59:00.067

Modified: 2024-11-21T02:18:39.330

Link: CVE-2014-8146

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2015-05-05T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2014-8146 - Bugzilla