6.8
CVSSv2

CVE-2015-1270

Published: 23/07/2015 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.8 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
VMScore: 605
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

The ucnv_io_getConverterName function in common/ucnv_io.cpp in International Components for Unicode (ICU), as used in Google Chrome prior to 44.0.2403.89, mishandles converter names with initial x- substrings, which allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (read of uninitialized memory) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file.

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Debian Bug report logs - #798647 icu: CVE-2015-1270 Package: src:icu; Maintainer for src:icu is Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) <gcs@debianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 12:45:01 UTC Severity: important Tags: fixed-upstream, patch, security, upstream Found in versions ic ...
Several security issues were fixed in Oxide ...
Several security issues were fixed in ICU ...
It was discovered that the International Components for Unicode (ICU) library mishandles converter names starting with x-, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (read of uninitialized memory) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in versio ...
The ucnv_io_getConverterName function in common/ucnv_iocpp in International Components for Unicode (ICU), as used in Google Chrome before 440240389, mishandles converter names with initial x- substrings, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (read of uninitialized memory) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a craf ...