CVE-2012-6656

Description

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

https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6e230d11837f3ae7b375ea69d7905f0d18eb79e5

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2432-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69472

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/02/1

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/29/3

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3142

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3