CVE-2014-6040
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Dec 5, 2014
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Sep 1, 2014
Description
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.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- 69472vdb-entry
- http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-0016.html
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=41488498b6
- GLSA-201602-02vendor-advisory
- MDVSA-2014:175vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20140829 CVE request: glibc character set conversion from IBM code pagesmailing-list
- USN-2432-1vendor-advisory
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17325
- 62100third-party-advisory
- [oss-security] 20140902 Re: CVE request: glibc character set conversion from IBM code pagesmailing-list
- 62146third-party-advisory
- DSA-3142vendor-advisory
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