CVE-2014-9654

Published: Apr 24, 2017Updated: May 13, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVD BDUCWE-119

9.8CRITICAL

NVD MITRE

Description

The Regular Expressions package in International Components for Unicode (ICU) for C/C++ before 2014-12-03, as used in Google Chrome before 40.0.2214.91, calculates certain values without ensuring that they can be represented in a 24-bit field, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted string, a related issue to CVE-2014-7923.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

Exploitability

AV:NAttack Vector

Network

AC:LAttack Complexity

Low

PR:NPrivileges Required

None

UI:NUser Interaction

None

Scope

S:UScope

Unchanged

Impact

C:HConfidentiality

High

I:HIntegrity

High

A:HAvailability

High

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Weaknesses

CWE-119

Affected Products

Google Inc

commercial·USaka google, google llc

Google ChromeOn-premDesktop App

Consumer Software / browser

Icu Project

oss-projectaka icu, international components for unicode

International Components for UnicodeLibrary

OSS Libraries / generic-library

icu-project

oss-projectaka international components for unicode

international components for unicodeLibrary

OSS Libraries / generic-library

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Exploitability

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MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques

Initial Access

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References

http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/changeset/36801

bugs.icu-project.org

http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/ticket/11371

bugs.icu-project.org

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/05/15

openwall.com

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