Data Handling - CVE-2015-1270
Published: July 23, 2015 / Updated: August 4, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU33587
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-1270
CWE-ID: CWE-19
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
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.
Affected software
icu (Alpine package)
How to mitigate CVE-2015-1270
Install update from vendor's website.
icu (Alpine package) - update to 52.1-r2
External 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