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.
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| References | () http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-0016.html - | |
| References | () http://secunia.com/advisories/62100 - | |
| References | () http://secunia.com/advisories/62146 - | |
| References | () http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2432-1 - Patch, Vendor Advisory | |
| References | () http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3142 - Vendor Advisory | |
| References | () http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:175 - | |
| References | () http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/29/3 - | |
| References | () http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/02/1 - Exploit | |
| References | () http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69472 - | |
| References | () https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-02 - | |
| References | () https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17325 - Exploit | |
| References | () https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=41488498b6 - |
Information
Published : 2014-12-05 16:59
Updated : 2024-11-21 02:13
NVD link : CVE-2014-6040
Mitre link : CVE-2014-6040
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2014-6040
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Products Affected
gnu
- glibc
CWE
CWE-119
Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer