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CVE-2014-7924 json

Use-after-free vulnerability in the IndexedDB implementation in Google Chrome before 40.0.2214.91 allows remote attackers to cause a denial…

published 11y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2014-7774

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.7%
EPSS 1.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 77%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Use-after-free vulnerability in the IndexedDB implementation in Google Chrome before 40.0.2214.91 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering duplicate BLOB references, related to content/browser/indexed_db/indexed_db_callbacks.cc and content/browser/indexed_db/indexed_db_dispatcher_host.cc.

Patch / fix

  • oxide-qt Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 1.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 40.0.2214.94-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1068

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2014-7924

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • chromium-browser RHEL 6 EXTRAS 40.0.2214.91-1.el6_6

red hat advisories RHSA-2015:0093

  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 55.0.2883.75-3.1
  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 113.0.5672.92-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10171-1openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1

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Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2014-7924 updated cvss 6.8

chromium-browser: use-after-free in IndexedDB

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 40.0.2214.91-1.el6_6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 40.0.2214.91-1.el6_6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 40.0.2214.91-1.el6_6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:0093

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.69% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 77% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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