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CVE-2014-7940

Date: January 22, 2015

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.

Severity Score

7.3

Related Resources (23)

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00005.html

Url: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72288

Url: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/87feb77547781a22b31c423bc0d57b7dca32d5b8

Url: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201502-13.xml

Url: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/deps/icu/+/866ff696e9022a6000afbab516fba62cfa306075

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-7940

Url: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2015-2367953.html

Url: http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031623

Url: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0047.html

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0093.html

Url: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=433866

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2014-7940

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-7940

Url: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-06

Url: https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/62383

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/62575

Url: http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/01/stable-update.html

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2476-1

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/62665

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-7940

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2014-7940

Severity Score

7.3

Weakness Type (CWE)

Resource Management Errors

CWE-399

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.3
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	LOW
Integrity (I):	LOW
Availability (A):	LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:	7.5
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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CVE-2014-7940

Date: January 22, 2015

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CVSS v3.1

CVSS v2

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