CVE-2014-7940: google chrome Resource Management Errors
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.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 8 · Related 4Timeline
- 22-01-2015PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 06-08-2024Last 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 versionEPSS 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
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected 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
- chrome≤ 40.0.2214.85
Icu-project1 product
4 vendors · 6 products
References
23 links- www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2015-2367953.htmlX Refsource CONFIRM
- chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/87feb77547781a22b31c423bc0d57b7dca32d5b8X Refsource CONFIRMREPORT
- www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.htmlX Refsource CONFIRM
Show all 23 references
- chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/deps/icu/+/866ff696e9022a6000afbab516fba62cfa306075X Refsource CONFIRMREPORT
- code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=433866X Refsource CONFIRM
- advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0047.htmlX Refsource CONFIRM