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.
Published: 2014-12-05
Score: 5.0 Medium
EPSS: 7.2% Low
KEV: No
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Action: n/a
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Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-97-1 eglibc security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3142-1 eglibc security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2014-5928 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2432-1 GNU C Library vulnerabilities
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Gnu Glibc
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T12:03:02.407Z

Reserved: 2014-09-01T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2014-6040

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2014-12-05T16:59:09.910

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2014-6040

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2014-6040 - Bugzilla

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