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    CVE-2014-7940

    The collator implementation in i18n/ucol.cpp in International Components for Unicode (ICU) 52 through SVN revision 293126, as used in Google Chrome before 40.0.2214.91, does not initialize memory for a data structure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted character sequence.

    Published:Jan 21, 2015
    Last Modified:Apr 12, 2025
    EPS:Jan 22, 2015
    EPSS Score:0.02151
    CVSS Score:7.5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Google
    Product
    Chrome
    Vendor
    Icu-project
    Product
    International Components For Unicode
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Rhel Extras

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    No CWE recorded yet

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    No CAPEC recorded yet

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    References

    http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0047.html
    http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/01/stable-update.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00005.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0093.html
    http://secunia.com/advisories/62383
    http://secunia.com/advisories/62575
    http://secunia.com/advisories/62665
    http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201502-13.xml
    http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html
    http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2015-2367953.html
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72288
    http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031623
    http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2476-1
    https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/deps/icu/+/866ff696e9022a6000afbab516fba62cfa306075
    https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/87feb77547781a22b31c423bc0d57b7dca32d5b8
    https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=433866
    https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-06
    https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html
    http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0047.html
    http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/01/stable-update.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00005.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0093.html
    http://secunia.com/advisories/62383
    http://secunia.com/advisories/62575
    http://secunia.com/advisories/62665
    http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201502-13.xml
    http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html
    http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2015-2367953.html
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72288
    http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031623
    http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2476-1
    https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/deps/icu/+/866ff696e9022a6000afbab516fba62cfa306075
    https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/87feb77547781a22b31c423bc0d57b7dca32d5b8
    https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=433866
    https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-06
    https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
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    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
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    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High