Vulnerability in Google Chrome
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 · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.021 (80.7th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 81st percentile — 80.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.021 · newest: 0.021 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- secunia.com/advisories/62665 (third-party-advisory)
- www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2015-2367953.html
- chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/87feb77547781a22b31c423bc0d57b7dca…
- googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/01/stable-update.html
- secunia.com/advisories/62575 (third-party-advisory)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2476-1 (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/72288 (vdb-entry)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201502-13.xml (vendor-advisory)
- www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-06 (vendor-advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2014-7940?
- CVE-2014-7940 is a vulnerability in Google Chrome, classified under CWE-399. Published 2015-01-22.
- Is CVE-2014-7940 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.