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CVE-2014-7943

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-7943 describes an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in Skia, a 2D graphics library, as used in Google Chrome versions prior to 40.0.2214.91. This flaw could lead to a denial of service. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, and can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. While the potential impact is limited to availability, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
14.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop_supplementary:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.60%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
73.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0160 is in the 57th percentile among its peer group of 23,684 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 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-2014-7943Moderate

chromium-browser: out-of-bounds read in Skia

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