CVE-2017-15422

Publication date 7 December 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Integer overflow in international date handling in International Components for Unicode (ICU) for C/C++ before 60.1, as used in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 63.0.3239.84 and other products, allowed a remote attacker to perform an out of bounds memory read via a crafted HTML page.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
chromium-browser	18.10 cosmic	Fixed 63.0.3239.84-0ubuntu1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 63.0.3239.84-0ubuntu1
	17.10 artful	Fixed 63.0.3239.84-0ubuntu0.17.10.1
	17.04 zesty	Fixed 63.0.3239.84-0ubuntu0.17.04.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 63.0.3239.84-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 63.0.3239.84-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
icu	18.10 cosmic	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	17.10 artful	Fixed 57.1-6ubuntu0.3
	17.04 zesty	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 55.1-7ubuntu0.4
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 52.1-3ubuntu0.8
oxide-qt	18.10 cosmic	Not in release
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not in release
	17.10 artful	Ignored end of life
	17.04 zesty	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored end of standard support
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Notes

leosilva

same as wheezy, precise/esm is not affected code is not present.

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
icu	Upstream: http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/changeset/40654

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3610-1
ICU vulnerability
28 March 2018