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Improper Data Handling The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package icu  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1204-ICU-627735
  • published23 Jul 2015
  • disclosed23 Jul 2015
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Introduced: 23 Jul 2015

CVE-2015-1270  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-19  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream icu package and not the icu package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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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