CVE-2025-5222
HIGHDescription
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.
CVSS v3 Vector
Exploitability
Impact
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Exploit Intelligence
Low risk: more likely to be exploited than 21% of all known CVEs.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:11888
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:12083
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:12331
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:12332
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:12333
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-5222
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2368600
- https://unicode-org.atlassian.net/jira/software/c/projects/ICU/issues/ICU-22957
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/06/msg00015.html
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