CVE-2015-1262: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Google Chrome: up to and including 42.0.2311.152

Published 2015-05-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.