CVE-2014-7940
ICU: uninitialized value use in the collation component
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 2.0
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Published · January 21, 2015
Updated · June 28, 2026
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.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 2.0 · 6.4AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
CWE not specified