CVE-2014-3174 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2014-3174?

CVE-2014-3174 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 27 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

modules/webaudio/BiquadDSPKernel.cpp in the Web Audio API implementation in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 37.0.2062.94, does not properly consider concurrent threads during attempts to update biquad filter coefficients, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (read of uninitialized memory) via crafted API calls.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-3174?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2014-3174?

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-2014-3174 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-3174 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-7292-q6p2-wf79, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3174.