Denial of Service and Memory Read Vulnerability in ICU

CVE-2015-1270 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

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