CVE-2012-6656

glibc: crash in IBM930 decoding

Published Dec 5, 2014 CVSS 2.0 · 5.0 Medium EPSS 3.4% KEV · Not listed
Description
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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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-97-1 eglibc security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3142-1 eglibc security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2012-6502 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2432-1 GNU C Library vulnerabilities
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
redhat
Published
Updated
Aug 6, 2024, 9:36 PM
Reserved
Sep 1, 2014, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Dec 5, 2014, 4:59 PM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 11:48 PM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
May 23, 2012, 12:00 AM