FKIE_CVE-2014-6040

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2014-12-05 16:59 - Updated: 2025-04-12 10:46
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-0016.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/62100
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/62146
secalert@redhat.comhttp://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2432-1Patch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3142Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:175
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/29/3
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/02/1Exploit
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69472
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-02
secalert@redhat.comhttps://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17325Exploit
secalert@redhat.comhttps://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=41488498b6
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-0016.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/62100
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/62146
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2432-1Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3142Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:175
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/29/3
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/02/1Exploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69472
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-02
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17325Exploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=41488498b6
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
gnu glibc *
gnu glibc 2.0
gnu glibc 2.0.1
gnu glibc 2.0.2
gnu glibc 2.0.3
gnu glibc 2.0.4
gnu glibc 2.0.5
gnu glibc 2.0.6
gnu glibc 2.1
gnu glibc 2.1.1
gnu glibc 2.1.1.6
gnu glibc 2.1.2
gnu glibc 2.1.3
gnu glibc 2.1.9
gnu glibc 2.10.1
gnu glibc 2.11
gnu glibc 2.11.1
gnu glibc 2.11.2
gnu glibc 2.11.3
gnu glibc 2.12
gnu glibc 2.12.1
gnu glibc 2.12.2
gnu glibc 2.13
gnu glibc 2.14
gnu glibc 2.14.1
gnu glibc 2.15
gnu glibc 2.16
gnu glibc 2.17
gnu glibc 2.18
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