CVE-2015-1262

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-05-20 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-17

Description

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 Linux: 8.0
Google Chrome: through 42.0.2311.152

References

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/05/stable-channel-update_19.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00091.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00015.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3267
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74723
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032375
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=476647
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201506-04
https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/blink?revision=194541&view=revision
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/05/stable-channel-update_19.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00091.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00015.html

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