CVE-2014-7940

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.

Predictions

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

References

• http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0047.html
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/01/stable-update.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00005.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0093.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/62383
• http://secunia.com/advisories/62575
• http://secunia.com/advisories/62665
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201502-13.xml
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2015-2367953.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72288
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031623
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2476-1
• https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/deps/icu/+/866ff696e9022a6000afbab516fba62cfa306075
• https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/87feb77547781a22b31c423bc0d57b7dca32d5b8
• https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=433866
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-06
• https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-7940

CWEs

CWE-399