Security Advisory

CVE-2014-6040

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2014-12-05 16:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 12:03:02

Assigner redhat

State PUBLISHED

Description

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.

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