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CVE-2014-7942

The Fonts implementation in Google Chrome before 40.0.2214.91 does not initialize memory for a...

7.5 HighFix available

The Fonts implementation 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 unknown vectors.

Exploit likelihood

1.59%Down 0.6 points since Feb 4, 2022
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 7.5

The Fonts implementation 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 unknown vectors.

Record
CVE-2014-7942
CVSS 2.0
7.5 HighAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness
CWE-399
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

The Fonts implementation 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 unknown vectors.

Record
CVE-2014-7942
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2014-7792 No score

The Fonts implementation 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 unknown vectors.

Record
EUVD-2014-7792
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-mvfx-7c67-3crp No score

The Fonts implementation in Google Chrome before 40.0.2214.91 does not initialize memory for a...

The Fonts implementation 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 unknown vectors.

Record
GHSA-mvfx-7c67-3crp
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVMGASA-2015-0036 No score

Updated chromium-browser-stable packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated chromium-browser packages fix security vulnerabilities:

Use-after-free vulnerability in the IndexedDB implementation in Google Chrome before 40.0.2214.91 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering duplicate BLOB references, related to content/browser/indexed_db/indexed_db_callbacks.cc and content/browser/indexed_db/indexed_db_dispatcher_host.cc (CVE-2014-7924).

Use-after-free vulnerability in the WebAudio implementation in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 40.0.2214.91, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors that trigger an audio-rendering thread in which AudioNode data is improperly maintained (CVE-2014-7925).

The SimplifiedLowering::DoLoadBuffer function in compiler/simplified-lowering.cc in Google V8, as used in Google Chrome before 40.0.2214.91, does not properly choose an integer data type, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted JavaScript code (CVE-2014-7927).

hydrogen.cc in Google V8, as used Google Chrome before 40.0.2214.91, does not properly handle arrays with holes, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted JavaScript code that triggers an array copy (CVE-2014-7928).

Use-after-free vulnerability in core/events/TreeScopeEventContext.cpp in the DOM implementation in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 40.0.2214.91, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted JavaScript code that triggers improper maintenance of TreeScope data (CVE-2014-7930).

factory.cc in Google V8, 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 crafted JavaScript code that triggers improper maintenance of backing-store pointers (CVE-2014-7931).

Use-after-free vulnerability in the HTMLScriptElement::didMoveToNewDocument function in core/html/HTMLScriptElement.cpp in the DOM implementation in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 40.0.2214.91, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors involving movement of a SCRIPT element across documents (CVE-2014-7929).

Use-after-free vulnerability in the Element::detach function in core/dom/Element.cpp in the DOM implementation in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 40.0.2214.91, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors involving pending updates of detached elements (CVE-2014-7932).

Use-after-free vulnerability in the DOM implementation in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 40.0.2214.91, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to unexpected absence of document data structures (CVE-2014-7934).

Use-after-free vulnerability in browser/speech/tts_message_filter.cc in the Speech implementation in Google Chrome before 40.0.2214.91 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors involving utterances from a closed tab (CVE-2014-7935).

Use-after-free vulnerability in the ZoomBubbleView::Close function in browser/ui/views/location_bar/zoom_bubble_view.cc in the Views implementation in Google Chrome before 40.0.2214.91 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted document that triggers improper maintenance of a zoom bubble (CVE-2014-7936).

The Fonts implementation 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 unknown vectors (CVE-2014-7938).

Google Chrome before…

Record
MGASA-2015-0036
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:10171-1 No score

chromedriver-55.0.2883.75-3.1 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the chromedriver-55.0.2883.75-3.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:10171-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1 No score

ungoogled-chromium-113.0.5672.92-1.1 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the ungoogled-chromium-113.0.5672.92-1.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2014-7942 No score

The Fonts implementation 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 unknown vectors.

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2014-7942
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUSN-2476-1 No score

oxide-qt vulnerabilities

Several memory corruption bugs were discovered in ICU. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via renderer crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the sandboxed render process. (CVE-2014-7923, CVE-2014-7926)

A use-after-free was discovered in the IndexedDB implementation. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2014-7924)

A use-after free was discovered in the WebAudio implementation in Blink. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via renderer crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the sandboxed render process. (CVE-2014-7925)

Several memory corruption bugs were discovered in V8. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via renderer crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the sandboxed render process. (CVE-2014-7927, CVE-2014-7928, CVE-2014-7931)

Several use-after free bugs were discovered in the DOM implementation in Blink. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via renderer crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the sandboxed render process. (CVE-2014-7929, CVE-2014-7930, CVE-2014-7932, CVE-2014-7934)

A use-after free was discovered in FFmpeg. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via renderer crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the sandboxed render process. (CVE-2014-7933)

Multiple off-by-one errors were discovered in FFmpeg. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via renderer crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the sandboxed render process. (CVE-2014-7937)

A memory corruption bug was discovered in the fonts implementation. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via renderer crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the sandboxed render process. (CVE-2014-7938)

It was discovered that ICU did not initialize memory for a data structure correctly. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via renderer crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the sandboxed render process. (CVE-2014-7940)

It was discovered that the fonts implementation did not initialize memory for a data structure correctly. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via renderer crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the sandboxed render process. (CVE-2014-7942)

An out-of-bounds read was discovered in Skia. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via renderer crash. (CVE-2014-7943)

An out-of-bounds read was discovered in Blink. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via renderer crash. (CVE-2014-7946)

It was discovered that the AppCache proceeded with caching for SSL sessions even if there is a certificate error. A remote attacker could potentially exploit this by conducting a MITM attack to modify HTML application content. (CVE-2014-7948) …

Record
USN-2476-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
chromium-browser-stable
Mageia:4
From an advisory covering 19 CVEs
before 40.0.2214.91-1.mga4
40.0.2214.91-1.mga4
chromium-browser
Red Hat:rhel_extras:6
From an advisory covering 29 CVEs
before 0:40.0.2214.91-1.el6_6
0:40.0.2214.91-1.el6_6
chromium-browser-debuginfo
Red Hat:rhel_extras:6
From an advisory covering 29 CVEs
before 0:40.0.2214.91-1.el6_6
0:40.0.2214.91-1.el6_6
chromium-browser
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS
before 40.0.2214.94-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1068, plus listed versions
29.0.1547.65-0ubuntu231.0.1650.63-0ubuntu1~20131204.132.0.1700.107-0ubuntu1~20140204.977.133.0.1750.152-0ubuntu1~pkg995.134.0.1847.116-0ubuntu2
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36.0.1985.125-0ubuntu1.14.04.0~pkg102937.0.2062.94-0ubuntu0.14.04.1~pkg104237.0.2062.120-0ubuntu0.14.04.1~pkg104938.0.2125.111-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.106139.0.2171.65-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1064
40.0.2214.94-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1068
oxide-qt
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS
before 1.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1, plus listed versions
1.0.0~bzr437-0ubuntu11.0.0~bzr452-0ubuntu11.0.0~bzr475-0ubuntu11.0.0~bzr490-0ubuntu11.0.0~bzr501-0ubuntu1
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1.0.0~bzr501-0ubuntu21.0.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.0.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.1.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.2.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.3.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
1.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
oxide-qt
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS
From an advisory covering 21 CVEs
before 1.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1, plus listed versions
1.0.0~bzr437-0ubuntu11.0.0~bzr452-0ubuntu11.0.0~bzr475-0ubuntu11.0.0~bzr490-0ubuntu11.0.0~bzr501-0ubuntu1
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1.0.0~bzr501-0ubuntu21.0.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.0.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.1.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.2.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.3.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
1.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
chromium
openSUSE:Tumbleweed
From an advisory covering 719 CVEs
before 55.0.2883.75-3.1
55.0.2883.75-3.1
chromium
openSUSE:Tumbleweed
From an advisory covering 2310 CVEs
before 113.0.5672.92-1.1
113.0.5672.92-1.1

History

History
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aliasesEUVD
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In short

CVE-2014-7942 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 7.5) in Google Chrome, published January 22, 2015. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 1.59%, the 75th percentile. Fixed in chromium-browser 40.0.2214.94-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1068.

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