CVE-2014-6040 (GCVE-0-2014-6040)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-12-05 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 12:03
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
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
12 references
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|---|---|
| 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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