CVE-2012-6656
N/A
Published: December 5, 2014 at 04:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:48 PM UTC
3 products affected across 3 vendorsDebian LinuxUbuntu LinuxGlibc
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%
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
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Ubuntu Linux· Canonicalrubygems
95%Debian Linux· Debiandrupal
95%Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (9)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3142Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVABroken Link
Source: [email protected]
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:175Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/29/3Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/02/1VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69472Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2432-1Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Source: [email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04x_refsource_CONFIRMExploitIssue Tracking
Source: [email protected]
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14134Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-20
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