CVE-2014-7926

Description

The Regular Expressions package in International Components for Unicode (ICU) 52 before SVN revision 292944, as used in Google Chrome before 40.0.2214.91, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to a zero-length quantifier.

Category

7.5
CVSS
Severity: High
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 2.28% Top 20%
Vendor Advisory ubuntu.com Vendor Advisory gentoo.org Vendor Advisory gentoo.org Vendor Advisory opensuse.org Vendor Advisory redhat.com
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/62665 third party advisory
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/deps/icu52/+/6242e2fbb36f486f2c0addd1c3cef67fc4ed33fb
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=422824
http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/ticket/11369
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2015-2367953.html
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/01/stable-update.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/62575 third party advisory
https://codereview.chromium.org/726973003
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2476-1 vendor advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72288 vdb entry
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201502-13.xml vendor advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-06 vendor advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031623 vdb entry
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00005.html vendor advisory
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0047.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0093.html vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/62383 third party advisory
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/deps/icu52/+/3af4ce5982311035e5f36803d547c0befa576c8c
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2014-7926?
CVE-2014-7926 has been scored as a high severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2014-7926?
To fix CVE-2014-7926, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2014-7926 being actively exploited in the wild?
It is possible that CVE-2014-7926 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~2% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
This platform uses data from the NIST NVD, MITRE CVE, MITRE CWE, First.org and CISA KEV but is not endorsed or certified by these entities. CVE is a registred trademark of the MITRE Corporation and the authoritative source of CVE content is MITRE's CVE web site. CWE is a registred trademark of the MITRE Corporation and the authoritative source of CWE content is MITRE's CWE web site.
© 2025 Under My Watch. All Rights Reserved.