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CVE-2012-6656

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CVE-2012-6656

Published: Dec 5, 2014

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

VendorProductVersions

n/a

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affected
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References

69472
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
USN-2432-1
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_UBUNTU
MDVSA-2014:175
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_MANDRIVA
GLSA-201503-04
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_GENTOO
DSA-3142
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_DEBIAN

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