CVE-2014-3167 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2014-3167?

CVE-2014-3167 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 13 Aug 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

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Google Chrome before 36.0.1985.143 allow attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have other impact via unknown vectors.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-3167?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2014-3167?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2014-3167 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-3167 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-jrh4-63fq-3h9g, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3167.