CVE-2012-6656
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-6656
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2012-6656.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2012-6656
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2014-12-05T16:59:00Z
- Modified
- 2026-02-04T16:28:07.592219Z
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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.
- References
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- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3142
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:175
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/29/3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/02/1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69472
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2432-1
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/29/3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/02/1
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14134
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14134
- https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6e230d11837f3ae7b375ea69d7905f0d18eb79e5