CVE-2012-6656 | BDVDB-2026-66525 Detail
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.
Impact#
No impact statement in the source data.
Weaknesses#
No weakness recorded in the source data.
References#
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69472
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2432-1
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:175
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/29/3
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14134
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/02/1
- https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6e230d11837f3ae7b375ea69d7905f0d18eb79e5
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3142
Exploit#
No public exploit known
History#
- Version 1Record published in the CVE List.
- Version 2Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.