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CVE-2012-6656

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.

Published

2014-12-05T16:59:00.067

Last Modified

2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 5.0 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-20

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Operating System	debian	debian_linux	7.0	Yes
Operating System	canonical	ubuntu_linux	10.04	Yes
Operating System	canonical	ubuntu_linux	12.04	Yes
Operating System	canonical	ubuntu_linux	14.04	Yes
Operating System	canonical	ubuntu_linux	14.10	Yes
Application	gnu	glibc	≤ 2.16	Yes

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3142 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:175 Broken Link ([email protected])
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/29/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/02/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69472 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2432-1 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04 ([email protected])
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14134 Exploit, Issue Tracking ([email protected])
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6e230d11837f3ae7b375ea69d7905f0d18eb79e5 ([email protected])
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3142 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:175 Broken Link (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/29/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/02/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69472 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2432-1 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14134 Exploit, Issue Tracking (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6e230d11837f3ae7b375ea69d7905f0d18eb79e5 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)