UBUNTU-CVE-2014-7940

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2014-7940

    Published: 22 Jan 2015Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2014-7940

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-7940, https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/87feb77547781a22b31c423bc0d57b7dca32d5b8, https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/deps/icu/+/866ff696e9022a6000afbab516fba62cfa306075, http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/01/stable-update.html, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2476-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2522-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-7940

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: chromium-browser

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -40.0.2214.94-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1068

    Affected versions

    29.0.1547.65-0ubuntu2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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