CVE-2014-9654 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2014-9654?

CVE-2014-9654 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 24 Apr 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Regular Expressions package in International Components for Unicode (ICU) for C/C++ before 2014-12-03, as used in Google Chrome before 40.0.2214.91, calculates certain values without ensuring that they can be represented in a 24-bit field, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted string, a related issue to CVE-2014-7923.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-9654?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Google Chrome, Icu-Project International Components for Unicode.

How do I fix CVE-2014-9654?

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-2014-9654 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-9654 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 DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9654, GHSA-7p8r-35pv-r5w2, SUSE-SU-2015:0458-1, SUSE-SU-2015:1144-1, SUSE-SU-2015:1790-1, SUSE-SU-2016:1090-1 and 1 more.