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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cve-icon 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

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

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

Modified: 2023-02-13T00:42:20.830

Link: CVE-2014-6040

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

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

Links: CVE-2014-6040 - Bugzilla