CVE-2014-6040
Medium
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.
SeverityMedium
CVSS5.0
Exploit probability—
Product
Gnu Glibc
PublishedDec 5, 2014
First seenDec 5, 2014
How to fix
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Affected products
| Product | Affected versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| gnu glibc | v ≤ 2.19, 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5, 2.0.6, 2.1, 2.1.1, 2.1.1.6, 2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.1.9, 2.10.1, 2.11, 2.11.1, 2.11.2, 2.11.3, 2.12, 2.12.1, 2.12.2, 2.13, 2.14, 2.14.1, 2.15, 2.16, 2.17, 2.18 | — |
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