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CVE-2014-6040
Published: Dec 5, 2014
Modified: Aug 6, 2024
PUBLISHED
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
69472
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-0016.html
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GLSA-201602-02
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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USN-2432-1
vendor-advisory
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https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17325
x_refsource_CONFIRM
62100
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
[oss-security] 20140902 Re: CVE request: glibc character set conversion from IBM code pages
mailing-list
x_refsource_MLIST
62146
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
DSA-3142
vendor-advisory
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