CVE-2015-1270: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Google Chrome: up to and including 43.0.2357.134
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 13.1 only; version 13.2 only
• Oracle Solaris: version 11.3 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary: version 6.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary: version 6.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary Eus: version 6.7z only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary: version 6.0 only

Published 2015-07-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.