DEBIAN-CVE-2014-6040

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

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-6040

Affected packages

Debian:12 / glibc

Package

Name: glibc
Purl: pkg:deb/debian/glibc?arch=source&distro=bookworm

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

2.19-12

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-6040.json"

Debian:13 / glibc

Package

Name: glibc
Purl: pkg:deb/debian/glibc?arch=source&distro=trixie

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

2.19-12

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-6040.json"

Debian:14 / glibc

Package

Name: glibc
Purl: pkg:deb/debian/glibc?arch=source&distro=forky

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

2.19-12

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-6040.json"