CVE-2014-7941: Chromium

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The SelectionOwner::ProcessTarget function in ui/base/x/selection_owner.cc in the UI implementation in Google Chrome before 40.0.2214.91 uses an incorrect data type for a certain length value, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via crafted X11 data.

Affected products

• Chromium Chromium: version 40.0.2214.110 only
• Google Chrome: up to and including 40.0.2214.85
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 13.1 only; version 13.2 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary: version 6.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary: version 6.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary Eus: version 6.6.z only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary: version 6.0 only

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