CVE-2014-7946 Memory corruption in n/a

Medium 5.0 Published Updated

Remote attackers can cause a denial of service via out-of-bounds read in Chrome's table layout rendering.

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-2014-7946?

CVE-2014-7946 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 22 Jan 2015. 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 RenderTable::simplifiedNormalFlowLayout function in core/rendering/RenderTable.cpp in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 40.0.2214.91, skips captions during table layout in certain situations, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via unspecified vectors related to the Fonts implementation.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-7946?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2014-7946?

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-2014-7946 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-7946 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as GHSA-vgr2-h473-jfqv, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-7946.

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