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.
Published: 2015-01-22
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: 2.4% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-219-1 icu security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3187-1 icu security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2014-7790 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2476-1 Oxide vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2522-1 ICU vulnerabilities
History

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.02727}

epss

{'score': 0.02151}


Subscriptions

Google Chrome
Icu-project International Components For Unicode
Redhat Rhel Extras
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Chrome

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T13:03:27.589Z

Reserved: 2014-10-06T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2014-7940

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Status : Modified

Published: 2015-01-22T22:59:20.880

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2014-7940

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2015-01-21T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2014-7940 - Bugzilla

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Weaknesses