CVE-2014-7909

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2014-11-18
Bugzilla:
1165660: CVE-2014-7909 chromium-browser: Uninitialized memory read in Skia

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

effects/SkDashPathEffect.cpp in Skia, as used in Google Chrome before 39.0.2171.65, computes a hash key using uninitialized integer values, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service by rendering crafted data.

Find out more about CVE-2014-7909 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue did not affect the versions of librsvg2 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 6.8
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary (v. 6) (chromium-browser) RHSA-2014:1894 2014-11-24

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 librsvg2 Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 librsvg2 Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 librsvg2 Not affected

External References

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