CVE-2014-3174

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-08-27 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

modules/webaudio/BiquadDSPKernel.cpp in the Web Audio API implementation in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 37.0.2062.94, does not properly consider concurrent threads during attempts to update biquad filter coefficients, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (read of uninitialized memory) via crafted API calls.

Affected products

Google Chrome: through 37.0.2062.93; 37.0.2062.0, 37.0.2062.1, 37.0.2062.2, 37.0.2062.3, 37.0.2062.4, 37.0.2062.5 (+75)

References

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2014/08/stable-channel-update_26.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00027.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/60268
http://secunia.com/advisories/60424
http://secunia.com/advisories/61482
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201408-16.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3039
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69407
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030767
https://crbug.com/389219
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95474
https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/blink?revision=177250&view=revision

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