CVE-2025-5222

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-5222
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-5222.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-5222
Downstream
ALPINE (1)
AZL (4)
BELL (1)
CLEANSTART (2)
CLSA (3)
DEBIAN (1)
ECHO (1)
MGASA (1)
OESA (1)
openSUSE (1)
RHSA (5)
RLSA (2)
SUSE (3)
UBUNTU (1)
Related
ALSA (2)
openSUSE (1)
SUSE (3)
Published
2025-05-27T20:51:50Z
Modified
2026-09-19T08:14:22Z
Severity
  • 7.0 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
Icu: stack buffer overflow in the srbroot::addtag function
Details

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.

Database specific 
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References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/unicode-org/icu

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/unicode-org/icu
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
457157a92aa053e632cc7fcfd0e12f8a943b2d11
Database specific
Show details 
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Affected versions

Other
brs/2023-10-04
cldr-32-beta2
cldr/2020-09-22
cldr/2021-02-17
cldr/2021-03-09
cldr/2021-06-15
cldr/2021-08-11
cldr/2021-08-25
cldr/2021-09-15
cldr/2021-09-29
cldr/2022-02-08
cldr/2022-02-22
cldr/2022-02-23
cldr/2022-04-11
cldr/2022-05-28
cldr/2022-06-27
cldr/2022-08-01
cldr/2022-08-11
cldr/2022-08-17
cldr/2022-09-07
cldr/2022-09-12
cldr/2022-12-02
cldr/2022-12-04
cldr/2023-02-02
cldr/2023-02-21
cldr/2023-03-13
cldr/2023-03-15
cldr/2023-07-19
cldr/2023-07-20
cldr/2023-08-08
cldr/2023-08-22
cldr/2023-09-13
cldr/2023-09-25
cldr/2023-09-27
last-cvs-commit
last-svn-commit
milestone-59-0-1
milestone-60-0-1
release-59-rc
release-60-rc
release-61-rc
release-62-rc
release-63-rc
release-64-rc
release-65-rc
release-67-rc
release-68-alpha
release-68-rc
release-69-rc
release-70-rc
release-71-rc
release-72-rc
release-73-rc
release-74-rc
release-75-rc
release-76-rc
release-77-rc
icu4x/2024-12-16/76.*
icu4x/2024-12-16/76.x

Database specific

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