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=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-747-1 March 26, 2009 icu vulnerability CVE-2008-1036 =========================================================== A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Ubuntu 7.10 Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Ubuntu 8.10 This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu. The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS: libicu34 3.4.1a-1ubuntu1.6.06.2 Ubuntu 7.10: libicu36 3.6-3ubuntu0.2 Ubuntu 8.04 LTS: libicu38 3.8-6ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 8.10: libicu38 3.8.1-2ubuntu0.1 After a standard system upgrade you need to restart applications linked against libicu, such as OpenOffice.org, to effect the necessary changes. Details follow: It was discovered that libicu did not correctly handle certain invalid encoded data. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing specially crafted data with applications linked against libicu, certain content filters could be bypassed.