CVE-2014-6040
5 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack 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
7.2 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.017 Low
EPSS
Percentile
87.9%
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.
Affected configurations
References
linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-0016.html
secunia.com/advisories/62100
secunia.com/advisories/62146
ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2432-1
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
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-02
sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17325
sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=41488498b6
Related
5 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack 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
7.2 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.017 Low
EPSS
Percentile
87.9%