CVE-2014-6040
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-6040
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2014-6040.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2014-6040
- Related
- Published
- 2014-12-05T16:59:09Z
- Modified
- 2025-04-12T10:46:40Z
- Downstream
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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.
- References
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- http://secunia.com/advisories/62100
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62146
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2432-1
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3142
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:175
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-02
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/02/1
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17325
- http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-0016.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/29/3
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69472
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=41488498b6
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-6040
Affected packages
Debian:11 / glibc
Package
- Name
- glibc
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/glibc?arch=source
Debian:12 / glibc
Package
- Name
- glibc
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/glibc?arch=source
Debian:13 / glibc
Package
- Name
- glibc
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/glibc?arch=source