Bug 1185220 (CVE-2014-7940)

Summary:	CVE-2014-7940 ICU: uninitialized value use in the collation component
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Martin Prpič <mprpic>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	caolanm, chazlett, denis.arnaud_fedora, erack, erik-fedora, tpopela, tuxator
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	Chrome 40.0.2214.91	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2015-12-17 10:40:59 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1185236
Bug Blocks:	1185232, 1186680

Description Martin Prpič 2015-01-23 09:05:51 UTC

An unspecified uninitialized-value flaw was found in the ICU component of the Chromium browser.

External References:

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/01/stable-update.html

Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2015-01-23 12:50:52 UTC

Google Chrome bug is:

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=433866

However, the bug is currently not public.  The following commits can be identified using the bug id:

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/deps/icu/+/866ff696e9022a6000afbab516fba62cfa306075
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/deps/icu/+/a626a75aad2675254073366fcaa9465dacf17100

Chrome README includes the following information about ICU upstream status of this issue:

   - No upstream bug filed because the upstream code was completely
     rewritten during the ICU 53 cycle.

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2015-01-27 18:48:04 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2015:0093 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0093.html