CVE-2014-7940 describes a memory initialization vulnerability in the collator implementation of International Components for Unicode (ICU) versions 52 and earlier, as used in Google Chrome before version 40.0.2214.91. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service or potentially other unspecified impacts through a crafted character sequence. 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 partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 40.0.2214.85CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 52.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:icu-project:international_components_for_unicode:*:*:*:*:*:c\/c\+\+:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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