ICU: uninitialized value use in the collation component
Published Jan 22, 2015
7.5
HIGHCVSS 2.0
EPSS 2.07%
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.
Affected products
No data.
Configuration 2
- ≤ 52.1
No data.
Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
chromium-browser-0:40.0.2214.91-1.el6_6
Fixed · RHSA-2015:0093
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
icu
Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
icu
Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
icu
Will not fix
| Product | Package | State | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | chromium-browser-0:40.0.2214.91-1.el6_6 | Fixed | RHSA-2015:0093 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | icu | Will not fix | n/a |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | icu | Will not fix | n/a |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | icu | Will not fix | n/a |
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (12 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 2.07% (0.02068) | 80.72th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 2.07% (0.02068) | 78.87th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 30, 2025 | 2.73% (0.02727) | 84.66th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 29, 2025 | 6.64% (0.06639) | 84.95th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 2.73% (0.02727) | 84.97th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 4.26% (0.04262) | 92.59th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jul 18, 2024 | 3.58% (0.03576) | 91.73th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Nov 8, 2023 | 3.55% (0.03553) | 90.54th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 2.49% (0.02494) | 88.40th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 3.78% (0.03779) | 85.48th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 3.78% (0.03779) | 84.01th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 3.78% (0.03779) | 67.21th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
References (22)
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0047.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/01/stable-update.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00005.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0093.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62383 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
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- http://secunia.com/advisories/62665 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201502-13.xml vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
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- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72288 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031623 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2476-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-7940 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1185220 Issue Tracking
- https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/deps/icu/+/866ff696e9022a6000afbab516fba62cfa306075 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/87feb77547781a22b31c423bc0d57b7dca32d5b8 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=433866 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-7940
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-06 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-7940
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html x_refsource_MISC
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