CVE-2014-7940

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2015-01-21
Bugzilla:
1185220: CVE-2014-7940 ICU: uninitialized value use in the collation component

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2014-7940 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 6.4
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary (v. 6) (chromium-browser) RHSA-2015:0093 2015-01-27

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 icu Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 icu Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 icu Will not fix

External References

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