7.5

CVE-2014-7940: google chrome Resource Management Errors

CVSS: 7.5v2.0HighModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2014-7940DEBIAN-CVE-2014-7940
Published 22-01-2015Last modified 06-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2014-7940 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Resource Management Errors vulnerability in google chrome. EPSS estimates a 2.07% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 81% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
30/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
2.07%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 8 · Related 4

Timeline

  1. 22-01-2015
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 06-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

2.07%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

81%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 2.07% on 18-09-2026

18-09-202618-10-2026
EPSS score
2.07%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Ubuntu3 products
  • chromium-browser< 40.0.2214.94-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1068
  • icu< 52.1-3ubuntu0.2
  • oxide-qt< 1.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
Debian1 product
  • icu< 52.1-7.1
Google1 product
Icu-project1 product

4 vendors · 6 products

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