CVE-2025-5222
icu - security update
7.0
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.03%
Description
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.
How to fix CVE-2025-5222
To remediate CVE-2025-5222, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/icu—upgrade to 74.1-r1 or later
- —upgrade to 67.1-7+deb11u1 or later
- —upgrade to 67.1-7+deb11u1 or later
- —upgrade to 72.1-3+deb12u1 or later
Is CVE-2025-5222 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.0%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (4)
- from 0, < 74.1-r1
- from 0, < 67.1-7+deb11u1
- from 0, < 67.1-7+deb11u1
- from 0, < 72.1-3+deb12u1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |