CVE-2014-6040

Summary

CVECVE-2014-6040
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2014-12-05 16:59:00 UTC
Updated2023-02-13 00:42:00 UTC
DescriptionGNU 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-119

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnu Glibc 2.0 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.0.1 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.0.2 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.0.3 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.0.4 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.0.5 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.0.6 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.1 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.1.1 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.1.1.6 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.1.2 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.1.3 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.1.9 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.10.1 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.11 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.11.1 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.11.2 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.11.3 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.12 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.12.1 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.12.2 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.13 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.14 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.14.1 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.15 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.16 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.17 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.18 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.0 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.0.1 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.0.2 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.0.3 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.0.4 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.0.5 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.0.6 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.1 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.1.1 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.1.1.6 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.1.2 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.1.3 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.1.9 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.10.1 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.11 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.11.1 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.11.2 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.11.3 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.12 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.12.1 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.12.2 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.13 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.14 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.14.1 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.15 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.16 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.17 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.18 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Red Hat Customer Portal - Access to 24x7 support and knowledge MISC access.redhat.com
Red Hat Customer Portal MISC access.redhat.com
Bug 1135841 – CVE-2014-6040 glibc: crash in code page decoding functions (IBM933, IBM935, IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364) MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
access.redhat.com | CVE-2014-6040 MISC access.redhat.com
GNU glibc 'iconv()' Denial of Service Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2014:175 | Mandriva MANDRIVA www.mandriva.com
sourceware.org Git - glibc.git/commitdiff CONFIRM sourceware.org Exploit
Bug 17325 – iconv from ccsid 937 to utf-8 access invalid memory (CVE-2014-6040) CONFIRM sourceware.org Exploit
GNU C Library: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 201602-02) — Gentoo Security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
sourceware.org Git - glibc.git/commitdiff MISC sourceware.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3142-1 eglibc DEBIAN www.debian.org Vendor Advisory
USN-2432-1: GNU C Library vulnerabilities | Ubuntu UBUNTU ubuntu.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
About Secunia Research | Flexera SECUNIA secunia.com
linux.oracle.com | ELSA-2015-0016 CONFIRM linux.oracle.com
oss-security - CVE request: glibc character set conversion from IBM code pages MLIST www.openwall.com
oss-security - Re: CVE request: glibc character set conversion from IBM code pages MLIST www.openwall.com Exploit
Security Advisory SA62146 - Oracle Linux update for glibc - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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