Detections
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CVE-2012-6656
high
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
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
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6e230d11837f3ae7b375ea69d7905f0d18eb79e5
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14134
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2012-6502
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:175