CVE-2012-6656
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Dec 5, 2014
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Sep 1, 2014
Description
iconvdata/ibm930.c in GNU C Library (aka glibc) before 2.16 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a multibyte character value of "0xffff" to the iconv function when converting IBM930 encoded data to UTF-8.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- 69472vdb-entry
- USN-2432-1vendor-advisory
- MDVSA-2014:175vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20140829 CVE request: glibc character set conversion from IBM code pagesmailing-list
- GLSA-201503-04vendor-advisory
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14134
- [oss-security] 20140902 Re: CVE request: glibc character set conversion from IBM code pagesmailing-list
- https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6e230d11837f3ae7b375ea69d7905f0d18eb79e5
- DSA-3142vendor-advisory
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