CVE-2014-7923

high
Published 2015-01-22 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
7.5
VIR risk
7.5

Description

The Regular Expressions package in International Components for Unicode (ICU) 52 before SVN revision 292944, as used in Google Chrome before 40.0.2214.91, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to a look-behind expression.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-7923

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed52.1-7.1
debian debianbullseyefixed52.1-7.1
debian debianforkyfixed52.1-7.1
debian debiansidfixed52.1-7.1
debian debiantrixiefixed52.1-7.1
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.10affected
suse suse13.1affected
suse suse13.2affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
icu-projectinternational_components_for_unicode{"endExcluding":"55.1"}55.1
oracle oraclecommunications_messaging_server7.0.5
oracle oraclecommunications_messaging_server8.0
gcp googlechrome{"endIncluding":"40.0.2214.85"}

References

CWEs

CWE-17

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.