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CVE-2017-15396

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-08-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

A stack buffer overflow in NumberingSystem in International Components for Unicode (ICU) for C/C++ before 60.2, as used in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 62.0.3202.75 and other products, allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0, 10.0
• Google Chrome: before 62.0.3202.75 — fixed in 62.0.3202.75
• Icu-Project International Components For Unicode: before 60.2 — fixed in 60.2
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 6.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 6.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Google Chrome 62.0.3202.75; Icu-Project International Components For Unicode 60.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/changeset/40494
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101597
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3082
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_26.html
• https://crbug.com/770452
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-02
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4020
• http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/changeset/40494
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101597
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3082
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_26.html
• https://crbug.com/770452

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