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.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2014-12-05T16:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-06T12:03:02.407Z
Reserved: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2014-6040
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2014-12-05T16:59:09.910
Modified: 2024-11-21T02:13:39.747
Link: CVE-2014-6040
Redhat