CVE-2012-6656 (GCVE-0-2012-6656)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-12-05 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 21:36
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
References
Date Public
2012-05-23 00:00
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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

Sightings

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  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
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