CVE-2014-6040

glibc: crash in code page decoding functions (IBM933, IBM935, IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364)

Published Dec 5, 2014 CVSS 2.0 · 5.0 Medium EPSS 6.6% KEV · Not listed
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.

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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-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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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
redhat
Published
Updated
Aug 6, 2024, 12:03 PM
Reserved
Sep 1, 2014, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Dec 5, 2014, 4:59 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 12:12 AM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Aug 28, 2014, 12:00 AM