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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2014-12-05T16:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T21:36:01.966Z

Reserved: 2014-09-01T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2012-6656

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2014-12-05T16:59:00.067

Modified: 2023-11-07T02:13:31.813

Link: CVE-2012-6656

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2012-05-23T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2012-6656 - Bugzilla