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CVE-2014-7940

Published: Jan 22, 2015Updated: May 6, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVD BDUCWE-399
7.5HIGH
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
2.1%
Top 21.1%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

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.

No summary for this CVE yet.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LAu:NC:PI:PA:P
Exploitability
AV:NAccess Vector
Network
AC:LAccess Complexity
Low
Au:NAuthentication
None
Impact
C:PConfidentiality
Partial
I:PIntegrity
Partial
A:PAvailability
Partial
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Weaknesses

CWE-399

Affected Products

n/an/a
Google ChromeGoogle Inc
On-premDesktop App
Consumer Software / browser
International Components for UnicodeIcu Project
Library
OSS Libraries / generic-library
chromegoogle
On-premDesktop App
Consumer Software / browser
international components for unicodeicu-project
Library
OSS Libraries / generic-library
google inccommercialUSMobile Appsaka google
icu projectoss-projectOSS Librariesaka international components for unicode, icu
googlecommercialUSMobile Appsaka google inc, google llc
icu-projectoss-projectOSS Librariesaka international components for unicode

Exploitability

Official Patch Available
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References

http://secunia.com/advisories/62665
secunia.com
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2015-2367953.html
oracle.com
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/87feb77547781a22b31c423bc0d57b7dca32d5b8
chromium.googlesource.com
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Timeline

Published
Jan 22, 2015
Last Updated
May 6, 2026

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