CVE-2012-6656

Publication date

2014-12-05 16:00:00

Family

redhat

State

PUBLISHED

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.