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CVE-2014-7940

Published: Jan 22, 2015 | Modified: Apr 12, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
6.4 MODERATE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-7940
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/399.html

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.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
ChromeGoogle*40.0.2214.85 (including)
Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6RedHatchromium-browser-0:40.0.2214.91-1.el6_6*
Chromium-browserUbuntudevel*
Chromium-browserUbuntulucid*
Chromium-browserUbuntuprecise*
Chromium-browserUbuntutrusty*
Chromium-browserUbuntuupstream*
Chromium-browserUbuntuutopic*
Chromium-browserUbuntuvivid*
Chromium-browserUbuntuwily*
IcuUbuntuesm-infra-legacy/trusty*
IcuUbuntulucid*
IcuUbuntuprecise*
IcuUbuntutrusty*
IcuUbuntutrusty/esm*
IcuUbuntuupstream*
IcuUbuntuutopic*
Oxide-qtUbuntudevel*
Oxide-qtUbuntutrusty*
Oxide-qtUbuntuupstream*
Oxide-qtUbuntuutopic*
Oxide-qtUbuntuvivid*
Oxide-qtUbuntuwily*

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