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CVE-2014-6040 (GCVE-0-2014-6040)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-12-05 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 12:03
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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http://secunia.com/advisories/62146 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
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Date Public
2014-08-28 00:00
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