RHSA-2009:0296: Moderate: icu security update

First published: Thu Mar 12 2009(Updated: )

The International Components for Unicode (ICU) library provides robust and<br>full-featured Unicode services.<br>A flaw was found in the way ICU processed certain, invalid, encoded data.<br>If an application used ICU to decode malformed, multibyte, character data,<br>it may have been possible to bypass certain content protection mechanisms,<br>or display information in a manner misleading to the user. (CVE-2008-1036)<br>All users of icu should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain<br>backported patches to resolve these issues.

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