CVE-2012-6656

Summary

CVECVE-2012-6656
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2014-12-05 16:59:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 02:13:00 UTC
Descriptioniconvdata/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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 10.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 10.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.10 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 7.0 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
GNU glibc 'iconv()' Denial of Service Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2014:175 | Mandriva MANDRIVA www.mandriva.com Broken Link
sourceware.org Git - glibc.git/commit sourceware.org
USN-2432-1: GNU C Library vulnerabilities | Ubuntu UBUNTU www.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
Bug 14134 – iconv() segfaults if the invalid multibyte character 0xffff is input when converting from IBM930 (CVE-2012-6656) CONFIRM sourceware.org Exploit, Issue Tracking
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3142-1 eglibc DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
Gentoo Security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
sourceware.org Git - glibc.git/commit CONFIRM sourceware.org Issue Tracking, Patch
oss-security - CVE request: glibc character set conversion from IBM code pages MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
oss-security - Re: CVE request: glibc character set conversion from IBM code pages MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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