Memory Initialization Vulnerability in ICU Collator Implementation

CVE-2014-7940 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

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