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CVE-2014-7942

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-7942 is a memory initialization vulnerability in the Fonts implementation of Google Chrome prior to version 40.0.2214.91, affecting products from vendors like Canonical, Chromium, Google, OpenSUSE, and Red Hat. With a CVSS score of 7.5, it is a high-severity vulnerability that can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, potentially leading to denial of service or other unspecified impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
40.0.2214.110CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:chromium:chromium:40.0.2214.110:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop_supplementary:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_supplementary:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.6.zCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_supplementary_eus:6.6.z:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation_supplementary:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.59%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
73.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0159 is in the 55th percentile among its peer group of 51,466 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: chromium-browser-0:40.0.2214.91-1.el6_6
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-7942Moderate

chromium-browser: uninitialized-value in Fonts

Jan 21, 2015

References

googlechromereleases.blogspot.com / 2015/01/stable-update.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00005.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-0093.html
code.google.com / p/chromium/issues/detail
secunia.com / advisories/62383
secunia.com / advisories/62575
secunia.com / advisories/62665
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201502-13.xml
securityfocus.com / bid/72288
securitytracker.com / id/1031623
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2476-1