CVE-2014-7940
Summary
| CVE | CVE-2014-7940 |
|---|---|
| State | PUBLISHED |
| Assigner | Chrome |
| Source Priority | CVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback |
| Published | 2015-01-22 22:59:20 UTC |
| Updated | 2026-05-06 22:30:45 UTC |
| Description | 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. |
Risk And Classification
CVSS v2.0 Breakdown
Access Vector
NetworkAccess Complexity
LowAuthentication
NoneConfidentiality
PartialIntegrity
PartialAvailability
PartialAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)
| Type | Vendor | Product | Version | Update | Edition | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application | Chrome | All | All | All | All | |
| Application | Icu-project | International Components For Unicode | All | All | All | All |
Vendor Declared Affected Products
References
| Reference | Source | Link | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| 866ff696e9022a6000afbab516fba62cfa306075 - chromium/deps/icu - Git at Google | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | chromium.googlesource.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 | |
| Gentoo Security | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | security.gentoo.org | |
| 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 | |
| Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - April 2019 | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | www.oracle.com | |
| Sign in - Google Accounts | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | code.google.com | |
| [security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2015:0441-1: important: Security update | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | lists.opensuse.org | |
| 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 | |
| 87feb77547781a22b31c423bc0d57b7dca32d5b8 - chromium/src.git - Git at Google | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | chromium.googlesource.com | |
| CVE Program record | CVE.ORG | www.cve.org | canonical |
| NVD vulnerability detail | NVD | nvd.nist.gov | canonical, analysis |
No vendor comments have been submitted for this CVE.
There are currently no legacy QID mappings associated with this CVE.