Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-7942

Title: Chromium Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-7942.

CWE Category CWE-399

Published Date Jan 22, 2015

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.59%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-7942: The Fonts implementation in Google Chrome before 40.0.2214.91 does not initialize memory for a data structure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.

Impacted Vendors

Reference Links

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=426762 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=426762

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2014-7942 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 17, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

January 22, 2015 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.