CVE-2014-7942
chromium-browser: uninitialized-value in Fonts
Severity Score
Exploit Likelihood
Affected Versions
Public Exploits
0Exploited in Wild
-Decision
Descriptions
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.
La implementación Fuentes en Google Chrome anterior a 40.0.2214.91 no inicializa la memoria para una estructura de datos, lo que permite a atacantes remotos causar una denegación de servicio o la posibilidad de tener otro impacto sin especificar a través de vectores no conocidos
Several memory corruption bugs were discovered in ICU. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via renderer crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the sandboxed render process. A use-after-free was discovered in the IndexedDB implementation. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. Various other issues were also addressed.
CVSS Scores
SSVC
- Decision:-
Timeline
- 2014-10-06 CVE Reserved
- 2015-01-22 CVE Published
- 2024-08-06 CVE Updated
- 2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
- ---------- Exploited in Wild
- ---------- KEV Due Date
- ---------- First Exploit
CWE
- CWE-399: Resource Management Errors
- CWE-456: Missing Initialization of a Variable
CAPEC
References (13)
| URL | Tag | Source |
|---|---|---|
| http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/01/stable-update.html | X_refsource_confirm | |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/62383 | Third Party Advisory | |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/62575 | Third Party Advisory | |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/62665 | Third Party Advisory | |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72288 | Vdb Entry | |
| http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031623 | Vdb Entry | |
| https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=426762 | X_refsource_confirm |
| URL | Date | SRC |
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| URL | Date | SRC |
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| URL | Date | SRC |
|---|---|---|
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00005.html | 2023-11-07 | |
| http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0093.html | 2023-11-07 | |
| http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201502-13.xml | 2023-11-07 | |
| http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2476-1 | 2023-11-07 | |
| https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-7942 | 2015-01-27 | |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1185222 | 2015-01-27 |
Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions
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| Vendor | Product | Version | Other | Status | <-- --> | Vendor | Product | Version | Other | Status |
| Chromium Search vendor "Chromium" | Chromium Search vendor "Chromium" for product "Chromium" | 40.0.2214.110 Search vendor "Chromium" for product "Chromium" and version "40.0.2214.110" | - |
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| Redhat Search vendor "Redhat" | Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary" | 6.0 Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary" and version "6.0" | - |
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| Redhat Search vendor "Redhat" | Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary" | 6.0 Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary" and version "6.0" | - |
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| Redhat Search vendor "Redhat" | Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary Eus Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary Eus" | 6.6.z Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary Eus" and version "6.6.z" | - |
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| Redhat Search vendor "Redhat" | Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary" | 6.0 Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary" and version "6.0" | - |
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| Google Search vendor "Google" | Chrome Search vendor "Google" for product "Chrome" | <= 40.0.2214.85 Search vendor "Google" for product "Chrome" and version " <= 40.0.2214.85" | - |
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| Opensuse Search vendor "Opensuse" | Opensuse Search vendor "Opensuse" for product "Opensuse" | 13.1 Search vendor "Opensuse" for product "Opensuse" and version "13.1" | - |
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| Opensuse Search vendor "Opensuse" | Opensuse Search vendor "Opensuse" for product "Opensuse" | 13.2 Search vendor "Opensuse" for product "Opensuse" and version "13.2" | - |
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| Canonical Search vendor "Canonical" | Ubuntu Linux Search vendor "Canonical" for product "Ubuntu Linux" | 14.04 Search vendor "Canonical" for product "Ubuntu Linux" and version "14.04" | lts |
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| Canonical Search vendor "Canonical" | Ubuntu Linux Search vendor "Canonical" for product "Ubuntu Linux" | 14.10 Search vendor "Canonical" for product "Ubuntu Linux" and version "14.10" | - |
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