--- /dev/null
+Backported of:
+
+From b7d08bc04a4296982fcef8b6b8a354a9e4e7afca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Frank Tang <ftang@chromium.org>
+Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2020 02:39:04 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] ICU-20958 Prevent SEGV_MAPERR in append
+
+See #971
+diff --git a/source/common/unistr.cpp b/source/common/unistr.cpp
+index 1bfb71a..e8a7f12 100644
+--- a/common/unistr.cpp
++++ b/common/unistr.cpp
+@@ -75,6 +75,17 @@ print(const UChar *s,
+ // END DEBUGGING
+ #endif
+
++// Adding this function as support of CVE-2020-10531
++// since this version has not uprv_add32_overflow
++// implement it here.
++UBool uprv_add32_overflow(int32_t a, int32_t b, int32_t* res) {
++ auto a64 = static_cast<int64_t>(a);
++ auto b64 = static_cast<int64_t>(b);
++ int64_t res64 = a64 + b64;
++ *res = static_cast<int32_t>(res64);
++ return res64 != *res;
++}
++
+ // Local function definitions for now
+
+ // need to copy areas that may overlap
+@@ -1544,7 +1555,11 @@ UnicodeString::doAppend(const UChar *srcChars, int32_t srcStart, int32_t srcLeng
+ }
+
+ int32_t oldLength = length();
+- int32_t newLength = oldLength + srcLength;
++ int32_t newLength;
++ if (uprv_add32_overflow(oldLength, srcLength, &newLength)) {
++ setToBogus();
++ return *this;
++ }
+ // optimize append() onto a large-enough, owned string
+ if((newLength <= getCapacity() && isBufferWritable()) ||
+ cloneArrayIfNeeded(newLength, getGrowCapacity(newLength))) {
+diff --git a/source/test/intltest/ustrtest.cpp b/source/test/intltest/ustrtest.cpp
+index b361e20..9b613d3 100644
+--- a/test/intltest/ustrtest.cpp
++++ b/test/intltest/ustrtest.cpp
+@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ void UnicodeStringTest::runIndexedTest( int32_t index, UBool exec, const char* &
+ TESTCASE_AUTO(TestUInt16Pointers);
+ TESTCASE_AUTO(TestWCharPointers);
+ TESTCASE_AUTO(TestNullPointers);
++ TESTCASE_AUTO(TestLargeAppend);
+ TESTCASE_AUTO_END;
+ }
+
+@@ -2248,3 +2249,64 @@ UnicodeStringTest::TestNullPointers() {
+ UnicodeString(u"def").extract(nullptr, 0, errorCode);
+ assertEquals("buffer overflow extracting to nullptr", U_BUFFER_OVERFLOW_ERROR, errorCode);
+ }
++
++void UnicodeStringTest::TestLargeAppend() {
++ if(quick) return;
++
++ IcuTestErrorCode status(*this, "TestLargeAppend");
++ // Make a large UnicodeString
++ int32_t len = 0xAFFFFFF;
++ UnicodeString str;
++ char16_t *buf = str.getBuffer(len);
++ // A fast way to set buffer to valid Unicode.
++ // 4E4E is a valid unicode character
++ uprv_memset(buf, 0x4e, len * 2);
++ str.releaseBuffer(len);
++ UnicodeString dest;
++ // Append it 16 times
++ // 0xAFFFFFF times 16 is 0xA4FFFFF1,
++ // which is greater than INT32_MAX, which is 0x7FFFFFFF.
++ int64_t total = 0;
++ for (int32_t i = 0; i < 16; i++) {
++ dest.append(str);
++ total += len;
++ if (total <= INT32_MAX) {
++ assertFalse("dest is not bogus", dest.isBogus());
++ } else {
++ assertTrue("dest should be bogus", dest.isBogus());
++ }
++ }
++ dest.remove();
++ total = 0;
++ for (int32_t i = 0; i < 16; i++) {
++ dest.append(str);
++ total += len;
++ if (total + len <= INT32_MAX) {
++ assertFalse("dest is not bogus", dest.isBogus());
++ } else if (total <= INT32_MAX) {
++ // Check that a string of exactly the maximum size works
++ UnicodeString str2;
++ int32_t remain = INT32_MAX - total;
++ char16_t *buf2 = str2.getBuffer(remain);
++ if (buf2 == nullptr) {
++ // if somehow memory allocation fail, return the test
++ return;
++ }
++ uprv_memset(buf2, 0x4e, remain * 2);
++ str2.releaseBuffer(remain);
++ dest.append(str2);
++ total += remain;
++ assertEquals("When a string of exactly the maximum size works", (int64_t)INT32_MAX, total);
++ assertEquals("When a string of exactly the maximum size works", INT32_MAX, dest.length());
++ assertFalse("dest is not bogus", dest.isBogus());
++
++ // Check that a string size+1 goes bogus
++ str2.truncate(1);
++ dest.append(str2);
++ total++;
++ assertTrue("dest should be bogus", dest.isBogus());
++ } else {
++ assertTrue("dest should be bogus", dest.isBogus());
++ }
++ }
++}
+diff --git a/source/test/intltest/ustrtest.h b/source/test/intltest/ustrtest.h
+index 4ba348c..d2d5ee1 100644
+--- a/test/intltest/ustrtest.h
++++ b/test/intltest/ustrtest.h
+@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ public:
+ void TestUInt16Pointers();
+ void TestWCharPointers();
+ void TestNullPointers();
++ void TestLargeAppend();
+ };
+
+ #endif