SUSE-SU-2023:3563-3: Security update for icu73_2

Published Oct 30, 2023
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Updated

This update for icu732 fixes the following issues: Update to release 73.2

CLDR extends the support for “short” Chinese sort orders to cover some additional, required characters for Level 2. This is carried over into ICU collation.

ICU has a modified character conversion table, mapping some GB18030 characters to Unicode characters that were encoded after GB18030-2005.

fixes builds where UCHARTYPE is re-defined such as libqt5-qtwebengine

Update to release 73.1

Improved Japanese and Korean short-text line breaking

Reduction of C++ memory use in date formatting

Update to release 72.1

Support for Unicode 15, including new characters, scripts, emoji, and corresponding API constants.

Support for CLDR 42 locale data with various additions and corrections.

Shift to tzdb 2022e. Pre-1970 data for a number of timezones has been removed.

bump library packagename to libicu71 to match the version.

update to 71.1:

updates to CLDR 41 locale data with various additions and corrections.

phrase-based line breaking for Japanese. Existing line breaking methods follow standards and conventions for body text but do not work well for short Japanese text, such as in titles and headings. This new feature is optimized for these use cases. support for Hindi written in Latin letters (hiLatn). The CLDR data for this increasingly popular locale has been significantly revised and expanded. Note that based on user expectations, hiLatn incorporates a large amount of English, and can also be referred to as “Hinglish”.

time zone data updated to version 2022a. Note that pre-1970 data for a number of time zones has been removed, as has been the case in the upstream tzdata release since 2021b.

ICU-21793 Fix ucptrietest golden diff [bsc#1192935]

Update to release 70.1:

Unicode 14 (new characters, scripts, emoji, and API constants)

CLDR 40 (many additions and corrections) Fixes for measurement unit formatting

Can now be built with up to C++20 compilers

ICU-21613 Fix undefined behaviour in ComplexUnitsConverter::applyRounder

Update to release 69.1

CLDR 39

For Norwegian, "no" is back to being the canonical code, with "nb" treated as equivalent. This aligns handling of Norwegian with other macro language codes. Binary prefixes in measurement units (KiB, MiB, etc.)

Time zone offsets from local time: New APIs BasicTimeZone::getOffsetFromLocal() (C++) and ucalgetTimeZoneOffsetFromLocal()

Backport ICU-21366 (bsc#1182645)

Update to release 68.2

Fix memory problem in FormattedStringBuilder

Fix assertion when setKeywordValue w/ long value. Fix UBSan breakage on 8bit of rbbi fix int32t overflow in listFormat Fix memory handling in MemoryPool::operator=()

Fix memory leak in AliasReplacer

Add back icu.keyring, see https://unicode-org.atlassian.net/browse/ICU-21361 Update to release 68.1: CLDR 38 Measurement unit preferences PluralRules selection for ranges of numbers Locale ID canonicalization now conforms to the CLDR spec including edge cases DateIntervalFormat supports output options such as capitalization Measurement units are normalized in skeleton string output

Time zone data (tzdata) version 2020d

Add the provides for libicu to Make .Net core can install successfully. (bsc#1167603, bsc#1161007) Update to version 67.1: Unicode 13 (ICU-20893, same as in ICU 66)

Total of 5930 new characters 4 new scripts 55 new emoji characters, plus additional new sequences New CJK extension, first characters in plane 3: U+30000..U+3134A

CLDR 37

New language at Modern coverage: Nigerian Pidgin New languages at Basic coverage: Fulah (Adlam), Maithili, Manipuri, Santali, Sindhi (Devanagari), Sundanese Region containment: EU no longer includes GB Unicode 13 root collation data and Chinese data for collation and transliteration DateTimePatternGenerator now obeys the "hc" preference in the locale identifier (ICU-20442) Various other improvements for ECMA-402 conformance Number skeletons have a new "concise" form that can be used in MessageFormat strings (ICU-20418) Currency formatting options for formal and other currency display name variants (ICU-20854) ListFormatter: new public API to select the style & type (ICU-12863) ListFormatter now selects the proper “and”/“or” form for Spanish & Hebrew (ICU-21016) Locale ID canonicalization upgraded to implement the complete CLDR spec (ICU-20834, ICU-20272) LocaleMatcher: New option to ignore one-way matches (ICU-20936), and other tweaks to the code (ICU-20916, ICU-20917) and data (from CLDR) acceptLanguage() reimplemented via LocaleMatcher (ICU-20700) Data build tool: tzdbNames.res moved from the "zonetree" category to the "zonesupplemental" category (ICU-21073) Fixed uses of u8"literals" broken by the C++20 introduction of the incompatible char8t type (ICU-20972), and added a few API overloads to reduce the need for reinterpretcast (ICU-20984). Support for manipulating CLDR 37 unit identifiers in MeasureUnit. Fix potential integer overflow in UnicodeString:doAppend (bsc#1166844, CVE-2020-10531). Update to version 66.1: Unicode 13 support Fix uses of u8"literals" broken by C++20 introduction of incompatible char8t type. (ICU-20972)

use LocalMemory for cmd to prevent use after free (bsc#1193951 CVE-2020-21913).

Remove /usr/lib(64)/icu/current [bsc#1158955]. Update to release 65.1 (jsc#SLE-11118): Updated to CLDR 36 locale data with many additions and corrections, and some new measurement units. The Java LocaleMatcher API is improved, and ported to C++.

Affected Software

30 affected components
SUSE SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.2 (x86_64)
SUSE SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.2 (noarch)
SUSE SUSE Manager Server 4.2 (ppc64le s390x x86_64)
SUSE SUSE Manager Server 4.2 (noarch)
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1 (noarch)
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2 (noarch)
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.2 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.2 (noarch)
SUSE openSUSE Leap Micro 5.2 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
SUSE openSUSE Leap Micro 5.2 (noarch)
SUSE openSUSE Leap Micro 5.3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
SUSE openSUSE Leap Micro 5.3 (noarch)
SUSE openSUSE Leap Micro 5.4 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
SUSE openSUSE Leap Micro 5.4 (noarch)
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3 (noarch)
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 (noarch)
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4 (noarch)
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4 (noarch)
SUSE Basesystem Module 15-SP4 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
SUSE Basesystem Module 15-SP4 (noarch)
SUSE Basesystem Module 15-SP5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
SUSE Basesystem Module 15-SP5 (noarch)
SUSE SUSE Manager Proxy 4.2 (x86_64)
SUSE SUSE Manager Proxy 4.2 (noarch)

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade to a fixed release to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Patch ICU-21366
  2. Upgrade

    Upgrade to a fixed release to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Patch SUSE-2023-3563=1
  3. Upgrade

    Upgrade to a fixed release to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2023-3563=1
  4. Upgrade

    Upgrade to a fixed release to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.4-2023-3563=1
  5. Upgrade

    Upgrade to a fixed release to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP4-2023-3563=1
  6. Upgrade

    Upgrade to a fixed release to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP5-2023-3563=1
  7. Upgrade

    Upgrade to a fixed release to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SUSE-Manager-Proxy-4.2-2023-3563=1
  8. Upgrade

    Upgrade to a fixed release to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SUSE-Manager-Retail-Branch-Server-4.2-2023-3563=1
  9. Upgrade

    Upgrade to a fixed release to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SUSE-Manager-Server-4.2-2023-3563=1
  10. Upgrade

    Upgrade to a fixed release to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Patch SUSE-SUSE-MicroOS-5.1-2023-3563=1
  11. Upgrade

    Upgrade to a fixed release to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Patch SUSE-SUSE-MicroOS-5.2-2023-3563=1
  12. Upgrade

    Upgrade to a fixed release to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Patch openSUSE-Leap-Micro-5.3-2023-3563=1
  13. Upgrade

    Upgrade to a fixed release to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Patch openSUSE-Leap-Micro-5.4-2023-3563=1
  14. Remove

    Remove /usr/lib(64)/icu/current from your environment.

    Remove /usr/lib(64)/icu/current.

Event History

Oct 30, 2023
Advisory Published
08:30 PM

Child vulnerabilities

Contains the following vulnerabilities.

Frequently Asked Questions

1

Which SUSE products are identified as affected?

The update applies to SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.2, SUSE Manager Server 4.2, SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1 and 5.2, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.2. Listed architectures include aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, and x86_64, depending on the product.

2

Does the supplied advisory data identify an affected default configuration or provide a workaround?

No. The supplied data does not state whether default installations are affected and does not provide mitigation steps for systems that cannot yet apply the update.

3

Does the supplied information explain how to detect exploitation or specify attacker prerequisites?

No. It identifies Integer Overflow and Use After Free weaknesses, but does not provide exploitation indicators, affected configuration details, or attacker prerequisites.

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