Source: icu
Version: 55.1-4
Severity: important
Tags: security patch upstream fixed-upstream

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for icu.

CVE-2015-1270[0]:
| 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.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-1270

A patch was actually appiled for 55.1-3 but the patch is currently
missapplied.

Regards,
Salvatore

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