CVE-2014-7940

NameCVE-2014-7940
DescriptionThe 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-219-1, DSA-3187-1
Debian Bugs776265

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
icu (PTS)bullseye67.1-7fixed
bookworm72.1-3fixed
sid, trixie72.1-5fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
chromium-browsersourcesqueeze(unfixed)end-of-life
chromium-browsersourcewheezy(unfixed)end-of-life
chromium-browsersource(unstable)40.0.2214.91-1
icusourcesqueeze4.4.1-8+squeeze3DLA-219-1
icusourcewheezy4.8.1.1-12+deb7u2DSA-3187-1
icusource(unstable)52.1-7.1776265
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