Vulnerability CVE-2015-1270
Published: 2015-07-22   Modified: 2015-07-23

Description:
The ucnv_io_getConverterName function in common/ucnv_io.cpp in International Components for Unicode (ICU), as used in Google Chrome before 44.0.2403.89, 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 crafted file.

Type:

CWE-19

 (Data Handling)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.8/10
6.4/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Redhat -> Enterprise linux desktop supplementary 
Redhat -> Enterprise linux server supplementary 
Redhat -> Enterprise linux server supplementary eus 
Redhat -> Enterprise linux workstation supplementary 
Oracle -> Solaris 
Opensuse -> Opensuse 
Novell -> Opensuse 
Google -> Chrome 
Debian -> Debian linux 

 References:
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/07/stable-channel-update_21.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00038.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1499.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3315
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3360
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75973
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033031
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2740-1
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/deps/icu/+/f1ad7f9ba957571dc692ea3e187612c685615e19
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=444573
https://codereview.chromium.org/1157143002/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-09
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