CVE-2014-9654

Published: 5 February 2015

The Regular Expressions package in International Components for Unicode (ICU) for C/C++ before 2014-12-03, as used in Google Chrome before 40.0.2214.91, calculates certain values without ensuring that they can be represented in a 24-bit field, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted string, a related issue to CVE-2014-7923.

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
icu Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	lucid	Ignored (reached end-of-life)
	precise	Released (4.8.1.1-3ubuntu0.3)
	trusty	Released (52.1-3ubuntu0.2)
	upstream	Released (52.1-7.1)
	utopic	Released (52.1-6ubuntu0.2)
	Patches: upstream: http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/changeset/31233 (bp) upstream: http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/changeset/36801

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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