CVE-2014-6040 (GCVE-0-2014-6040)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-12-05 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 12:03
VLAI
Summary
GNU C Library (aka glibc) before 2.20 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a multibyte character value of "0xffff" to the iconv function when converting (1) IBM933, (2) IBM935, (3) IBM937, (4) IBM939, or (5) IBM1364 encoded data to UTF-8.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69472 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-0016.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-02 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/29/3 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2432-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17325 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/62100 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/02/1 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://secunia.com/advisories/62146 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3142 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Date Public
2014-08-28 00:00
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