CVE-2014-6040
N/A
Published: December 5, 2014 at 04:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:12 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorGlibc
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 7%
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.
Remediation
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References (12)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3142Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
Source: [email protected]
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:175Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/29/3Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTExploit
Source: [email protected]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/02/1Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-119
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