Resource management error in Google Chrome - CVE-2014-1700
Published: March 16, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU41909
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-1700
CWE-ID: CWE-399
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Google
Affected software:
Google Chrome
Google Chrome
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
Use-after-free vulnerability in modules/speech/SpeechSynthesis.cpp in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 33.0.1750.149, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging improper handling of a certain utterance data structure.
How to mitigate CVE-2014-1700
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2014/03/stable-channel-update_11.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-04/msg00008.html
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201408-16.xml
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2883
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029914
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=344881
- https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/blink?revision=168171&view=revision