CVE-2014-7942

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

Description

The Fonts implementation 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 unknown vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.10affected
suse suse13.1affected
suse suse13.2affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
chromiumchromium40.0.2214.110
gcp googlechrome{"endIncluding":"40.0.2214.85"}

References

CWEs

CWE-399

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