CVE-2014-7926

Summary

CVECVE-2014-7926
StatePUBLISHED
AssignerChrome
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2015-01-22 22:59:07 UTC
Updated2026-05-06 22:30:45 UTC
DescriptionThe Regular Expressions package in International Components for Unicode (ICU) 52 before SVN revision 292944, as used in Google Chrome before 40.0.2214.91, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to a zero-length quantifier.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-17 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.10 All All All
Application Google Chrome All All All All
Application Icu-project International Components For Unicode All All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 13.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 13.2 All All All
Operating System Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7.0.5 All All All
Operating System Oracle Communications Messaging Server 8.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary 6.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary 6.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary Eus 6.6.z All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary 6.0 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Mageia Advisory: MGASA-2015-0047 - Updated icu packages fix security vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 advisories.mageia.org
Oracle Solaris Third Party Bulletin - April 2015 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.oracle.com
Security Advisory SA62383 - Google Chrome Multiple Vulnerabilities - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
USN-2476-1: Oxide vulnerabilities | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
Chrome Releases: Stable Channel Update af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 googlechromereleases.blogspot.com
About Secunia Research | Flexera af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Oracle Critical Patch Update - October 2015 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.oracle.com
Google Chrome Multiple Bugs Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code and Deny Service - SecurityTracker af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securitytracker.com
Sign in - Google Accounts af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 code.google.com
Gentoo Security af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
3af4ce5982311035e5f36803d547c0befa576c8c - chromium/deps/icu52 - Git at Google af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 chromium.googlesource.com
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- Chromium: Multiple vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
Google Chrome 40.0.2214.91 Multiple Security Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
[ICU-11369] Heap-buffer-overflow in RegexMatcher::MatchChunkAt - Unicode Consortium af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.icu-project.org
Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - April 2019 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.oracle.com
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2015:0441-1: important: Security update af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
Issue 726973003: Roll src/third_party/icu d8b2a9d:6242e2f (svn 292476:292944) - Code Review af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 codereview.chromium.org
6242e2fbb36f486f2c0addd1c3cef67fc4ed33fb - chromium/deps/icu52 - Git at Google af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 chromium.googlesource.com
Red Hat Customer Portal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com
Security Advisory SA62575 - Ubuntu update for oxide-qt - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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