Bug 1185282 (CVE-2015-1205)

Summary:	CVE-2015-1205 chromium-browser: multiple unspecified vulnerabilities
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Vasyl Kaigorodov <vkaigoro>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified	CC:	caolanm, denis.arnaud_fedora, erack, erik-fedora, tpopela, tuxator
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	Chrome 40.0.2214.91	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2015-07-17 05:25:36 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	1185232

Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-01-23 11:48:32 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2015-1205 to
the following vulnerability:

Name: CVE-2015-1205
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1205
Assigned: 20150121
Reference: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=449894

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Google Chrome before
40.0.2214.91 allow attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly
have other impact via unknown vectors.

Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2015-01-23 13:12:35 UTC

Upstream bug linked in comment 0 contains long list of other upstream bugs for random fixes applied in this Chrome update.  One of the issues is:

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=432209

This bug is currently non-public, but it can be tracked to the following ICU change using the bug id:

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/deps/icu/+/dd727641e190d60e4593bcb3a35c7f51eb4925c5

Chrome commit identifies ICU upstream bug, which is also non-public.  ICU upstream bug and commit links:

http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/ticket/11371
http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/changeset/36801
"Improved checking of regular expression pattern size limits."

Comment 3 Tomas Hoger 2015-02-06 19:40:47 UTC

Removing ICU affects.  The ICU issue mentioned in comment 1 got separate CVE assignment - CVE-2014-9654, see bug 1190129.

Comment 4 Tomas Hoger 2020-07-01 09:24:07 UTC

In reply to comment #1:
> Chrome commit identifies ICU upstream bug, which is also non-public.  ICU
> upstream bug and commit links:
> 
> http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/ticket/11371
> http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/changeset/36801
> "Improved checking of regular expression pattern size limits."

ICU upstream migrated to Jira for bug tracking and git for source code.  Matching links are:

https://unicode-org.atlassian.net/browse/ICU-11371
https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/commit/63758dca88e784a69467158a99f8903f8c30fa6d