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CVE-2014-7940 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....

HighCVSS 7.5 EPSS 2.1%
Published
Updated
Exploit status
No public exploit known

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.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
debian/icu(Debian:12) < 52.1-7.1 52.1-7.1
debian/icu(Debian:13) < 52.1-7.1 52.1-7.1
debian/icu(Debian:14) < 52.1-7.1 52.1-7.1
Google Chrome <= 40.0.2214.85 No fix listed
icu-project international components for unicode <= 52.1 No fix listed

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