CVE-2016-7415

critical
Published 2016-09-17 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
7.5
VIR risk
9.8

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the Locale class in common/locid.cpp in International Components for Unicode (ICU) through 57.1 for C/C++ allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long locale string.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-7415

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7415.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/15/10

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed57.1-5
debian debianbullseyefixed57.1-5
debian debianforkyfixed57.1-5
debian debiansidfixed57.1-5
debian debiantrixiefixed57.1-5

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
icu-projectinternational_components_for_unicode{"endIncluding":"57.1"}

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.