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CVE-2014-7943

• 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: 2015-01-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Skia, as used in Google Chrome before 40.0.2214.91, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 14.10
• Chromium: 40.0.2214.110
• Google Chrome: through 40.0.2214.85
• Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary: 6.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary: 6.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary Eus: 6.6.z
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary: 6.0

References

• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/01/stable-update.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00005.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0093.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/62383
• http://secunia.com/advisories/62575
• http://secunia.com/advisories/62665
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201502-13.xml
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72288
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031623
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2476-1
• https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=422492
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/01/stable-update.html

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