CVE-2025-5222
A stack buffer overflow was found in Internationl components for unicode (ICU ). While running the genrb binary, the 'subtag' struct overflowed at the SRBRoot::addTag function. This issue may lead to memory corruption and local arbitrary code execution.
- Affected products
- Almalinux, Astra Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Red Os, Rocky Linux, Suse, Icu
- Unicode International Components For Unicode
- < 77.1
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.0 HIGH
- EPSS
- 0.3% (24th percentile)
- Weakness
- CWE-120
- NVD status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-05-27
Workaround
Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.
CVE-2025-5222 at NVD
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