CVE-2012-6656

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.

Score

CVSS 2.0 5.0 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2014-12-05

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-20

Affected products

• Ubuntu Linux (Canonical)
• Debian Linux (Debian)
• Glibc (Gnu)

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3142
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:175
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/29/3
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/02/1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69472
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2432-1
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14134
• https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6e230d11837f3ae7b375ea69d7905f0d18eb79e5