CVE-2014-7940: Google Chrome

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• Google Chrome: up to and including 40.0.2214.85
• Icu-Project International Components For Unicode: up to and including 52.1

Published 2015-01-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.