CVE-2014-1725 Memory corruption in n/a

Medium 5.0 Published Updated

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.

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Sources

Also known as GHSA-78gj-hp65-vh47.

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