critical
CVE-2014-9654
icu: insufficient size limit checks in regular expression compiler
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.
Severity by source
NVD9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat5.1AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Red Hat (medium), Ubuntu (medium).
Description
The Regular Expressions package in International Components for Unicode (ICU) for C/C++ before 2014-12-03, as used in Google Chrome before 40.0.2214.91, calculates certain values without ensuring that they can be represented in a 24-bit field, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted string, a related issue to CVE-2014-7923.
Affected packages and fixed versions
| Source | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| debian 11 | icu | 52.1-7.1 |
| debian 12 | icu | 52.1-7.1 |
| debian 13 | icu | 52.1-7.1 |
| debian 14 | icu | 52.1-7.1 |
| debian 7 | icu | 4.8.1.1-12+deb7u2 |
| echo | icu | 52.1-7.1 |
| Red Hat | icu, libicu, libicu-devel and 1 more | no fix listed |
| root.io debian 12 | rootio-icu | 52.1-7.1 |
| ubuntu 12.04 | icu | 4.8.1.1-3ubuntu0.3 |
| ubuntu 14.04 | icu | 52.1-3ubuntu0.2 |
| ubuntu 14.04-ESM | icu | 52.1-3ubuntu0.2 |
| ubuntu 14.10 | icu | 52.1-6ubuntu0.2 |
Show all 15 entries from 12 sources
| Source | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| debian 11 | icu | 52.1-7.1 |
| debian 12 | icu | 52.1-7.1 |
| debian 13 | icu | 52.1-7.1 |
| debian 14 | icu | 52.1-7.1 |
| debian 7 | icu | 4.8.1.1-12+deb7u2 |
| echo | icu | 52.1-7.1 |
| Red Hat | icu | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | libicu | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | libicu-devel | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | libicu-doc | no fix listed |
| root.io debian 12 | rootio-icu | 52.1-7.1 |
| ubuntu 12.04 | icu | 4.8.1.1-3ubuntu0.3 |
| ubuntu 14.04 | icu | 52.1-3ubuntu0.2 |
| ubuntu 14.04-ESM | icu | 52.1-3ubuntu0.2 |
| ubuntu 14.10 | icu | 52.1-6ubuntu0.2 |
References
- http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/changeset/36801
- http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/ticket/11371
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/05/15
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/05/15
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035410
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-9654
- https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/deps/icu/+/dd727641e190d60e4593bcb3a35c7f51eb4925c5
All 14 references
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=432209
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9654
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-06
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2522-1
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-9654
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html