CVE-2012-6656
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5 · Improper input validation
5CVSS MEDIUM
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)3%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3142Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:175
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/29/3Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/02/1Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69472Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2432-1Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14134Exploit