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CVE-2014-6040

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.

Published

2014-12-05T16:59:09.910

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-119
Affected Vendors & Products
Type Vendor Product Version/Range Vulnerable?
Application gnu glibc ≤ 2.19 Yes
Application gnu glibc 2.0 Yes
Application gnu glibc 2.0.1 Yes
Application gnu glibc 2.0.2 Yes
Application gnu glibc 2.0.3 Yes
Application gnu glibc 2.0.4 Yes
Application gnu glibc 2.0.5 Yes
Application gnu glibc 2.0.6 Yes
Application gnu glibc 2.1 Yes
Application gnu glibc 2.1.1 Yes
Application gnu glibc 2.1.1.6 Yes
Application gnu glibc 2.1.2 Yes
Application gnu glibc 2.1.3 Yes
Application gnu glibc 2.1.9 Yes
Application gnu glibc 2.10.1 Yes
Application gnu glibc 2.11 Yes
Application gnu glibc 2.11.1 Yes
Application gnu glibc 2.11.2 Yes
Application gnu glibc 2.11.3 Yes
Application gnu glibc 2.12 Yes
Application gnu glibc 2.12.1 Yes
Application gnu glibc 2.12.2 Yes
Application gnu glibc 2.13 Yes
Application gnu glibc 2.14 Yes
Application gnu glibc 2.14.1 Yes
Application gnu glibc 2.15 Yes
Application gnu glibc 2.16 Yes
Application gnu glibc 2.17 Yes
Application gnu glibc 2.18 Yes
References