CVE - CVE-2014-7940

CVE-ID
CVE-2014-7940	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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.
References
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CONFIRM:http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/01/stable-update.html CONFIRM:https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/deps/icu/+/866ff696e9022a6000afbab516fba62cfa306075 CONFIRM:https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/87feb77547781a22b31c423bc0d57b7dca32d5b8 CONFIRM:https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=433866 CONFIRM:http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0047.html CONFIRM:http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2015-2367953.html CONFIRM:http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html GENTOO:GLSA-201502-13 URL:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201502-13.xml GENTOO:GLSA-201503-06 URL:https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-06 REDHAT:RHSA-2015:0093 URL:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0093.html SUSE:openSUSE-SU-2015:0441 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00005.html UBUNTU:USN-2476-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2476-1 BID:72288 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72288 SECTRACK:1031623 URL:http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031623 SECUNIA:62575 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/62575 SECUNIA:62383 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/62383 SECUNIA:62665 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/62665
Assigning CNA
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Date Entry Created
20141006	Disclaimer: The entry creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20141006)
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Proposed (Legacy)
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