CVE-2014-1725 Memory corruption in n/a
Remote attackers can cause a denial of service via out-of-bounds read in Blink's base64 decoder when processing whitespace-only strings.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2014-1725?
CVE-2014-1725 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 9 Apr 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
The base64DecodeInternal function in wtf/text/Base64.cpp in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 34.0.1847.116, does not properly handle string data composed exclusively of whitespace characters, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a window.atob method call.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-1725?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Google Chrome.
How do I fix CVE-2014-1725?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2014-1725 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-1725 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Google Chrome
Sources
Also known as GHSA-78gj-hp65-vh47.