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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BID:72288 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72288 CONFIRM:http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0047.html CONFIRM:http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/01/stable-update.html CONFIRM:http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html CONFIRM:http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2015-2367953.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 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 MISC:https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html REDHAT:RHSA-2015:0093 URL:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0093.html SECTRACK:1031623 URL:http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031623 SECUNIA:62383 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/62383 SECUNIA:62575 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/62575 SECUNIA:62665 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/62665 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
Assigning CNA
Chrome
Date Record Created
20141006	Disclaimer: The record 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)
N/A
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