CVE-2015-1270 Information

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.

Reference

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