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CVE-2014-6040

Date: December 5, 2014

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

Related Resources (15)

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3142
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-6040
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/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=41488498b6
http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-0016.html
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2432-1
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:175
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-02
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-6040
http://secunia.com/advisories/62100
http://secunia.com/advisories/62146
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69472
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17325
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2014-6040

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CWE-119

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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