CVE-2014-7942

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2015-01-21
CWE:
CWE-456
Bugzilla:
1185222: CVE-2014-7942 chromium-browser: uninitialized-value in Fonts

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The Fonts implementation 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 unknown vectors.

Find out more about CVE-2014-7942 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

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