CVE-2012-6656
5.9 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
0.003 Low
EPSS
Percentile
70.8%
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
www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3142
www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:175
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/29/3
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/02/1
www.securityfocus.com/bid/69472
www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2432-1
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04
sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14134
sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6e230d11837f3ae7b375ea69d7905f0d18eb79e5
Related
5.9 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
0.003 Low
EPSS
Percentile
70.8%