| Name | CVE-2014-7940 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-219-1, DSA-3187-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 776265 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| chromium-browser (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 57.0.2987.98-1~deb8u1 | fixed |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 71.0.3578.80-1~deb9u1 | fixed | |
| icu (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 52.1-8+deb8u9 | fixed |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 57.1-6+deb9u5 | fixed | |
| buster | 63.1-6+deb10u3 | fixed | |
| buster (security), buster (lts) | 63.1-6+deb10u2 | fixed | |
| bullseye | 67.1-7 | fixed | |
| bookworm | 72.1-3 | fixed | |
| sid, trixie | 72.1-5 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| chromium-browser | source | squeeze | (unfixed) | end-of-life | ||
| chromium-browser | source | wheezy | (unfixed) | end-of-life | ||
| chromium-browser | source | (unstable) | 40.0.2214.91-1 | |||
| icu | source | squeeze | 4.4.1-8+squeeze3 | DLA-219-1 | ||
| icu | source | wheezy | 4.8.1.1-12+deb7u2 | DSA-3187-1 | ||
| icu | source | (unstable) | 52.1-7.1 | 776265 |