CVE-2014-1714

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-03-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The ScopedClipboardWriter::WritePickledData function in ui/base/clipboard/scoped_clipboard_writer.cc in Google Chrome before 33.0.1750.152 on OS X and Linux and before 33.0.1750.154 on Windows does not verify a certain format value, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to the clipboard.

Affected products

Google Chrome: before 33.0.1750.152; before 33.0.1750.154 — fixed in 33.0.1750.152, 33.0.1750.154

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Google Chrome 33.0.1750.152, 33.0.1750.154. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2014-03/0143.html
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2014/03/stable-channel-update_14.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-04/msg00008.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201408-16.xml
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=352395
https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?revision=256974&view=revision
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2014-03/0143.html
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2014/03/stable-channel-update_14.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-04/msg00008.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201408-16.xml
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=352395
https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?revision=256974&view=revision

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