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CVE-2014-7926 json

The Regular Expressions package in International Components for Unicode (ICU) 52 before SVN revision 292944, as used in Google Chrome befor…

published 11y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2014-7776

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.2%
EPSS 2.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 82%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The Regular Expressions package in International Components for Unicode (ICU) 52 before SVN revision 292944, as used in Google Chrome before 40.0.2214.91, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to a zero-length quantifier.

Patch / fix

  • icu-project international_components_for_unicode 55.1
  • icu Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 52.1-7.1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2014-7926

  • icu Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 52.1-3ubuntu0.2
  • 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-2014-7926

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-2014-7926 updated cvss 6.8

ICU: regexp engine incorrect handling of a zero length quantifier

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 icu Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 icu, libicu Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 icu, libicu
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • 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

2.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 82% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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