CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-6656
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-12-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
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.
Affected configurations
• debian debian linux 7.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 10.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.10
• gnu glibc (<= 2.16)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3142 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:175 Broken Link
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/29/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/02/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69472 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2432-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04 security.gentoo.org
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14134 Exploit, Issue Tracking
- https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6e230d11837f3ae7b375ea69d7905f0d18eb79e5 sourceware.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3142 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:175 Broken Link
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/29/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/02/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69472 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2432-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04 security.gentoo.org
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14134 Exploit, Issue Tracking
- https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6e230d11837f3ae7b375ea69d7905f0d18eb79e5 sourceware.org