CVE-2015-1262 Information

Description

platform/fonts/shaping/HarfBuzzShaper.cpp in Blink as used in Google Chrome before 43.0.2357.65 does not initialize a certain width field which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted Unicode text.

Reference

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/05/stable-channel-update_19.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00091.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00015.html http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3267 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74723 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032375 https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=476647 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201506-04 https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/blink?revision=194541&view=revision