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Category: Ubuntu Local Security Checks Risk factor: High Added: 28 Jan 2012
Synopsis:

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related
patches.

Description:

It was discovered that ICU did not properly handle invalid locale data during Unicode conversion. If an application using ICU processed crafted data, an attacker could cause it to crash or potentially execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the
program.

See also:

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1348-1/

Solution:

Update the affected package(s).

Risk factor:

High