CVE-2014-6040

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…

published December 5, 2014

CVSS
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EPSS
7%
Percentile
93.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.06564 · 93.8th percentile
Published
2014-12-05T16:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 05 DEC 16:00Z
    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…
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