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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.
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References
69472
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
USN-2432-1
vendor-advisory
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MDVSA-2014:175
vendor-advisory
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[oss-security] 20140829 CVE request: glibc character set conversion from IBM code pages
mailing-list
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GLSA-201503-04
vendor-advisory
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https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14134
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[oss-security] 20140902 Re: CVE request: glibc character set conversion from IBM code pages
mailing-list
x_refsource_MLIST
DSA-3142
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_DEBIAN
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