CVE-2012-6656 — Vulnetix

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CVE-2012-6656 REJECTED

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.

EPSS 1.21% · 78.9th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

1.21%

78.9th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS	eglibc	0, 2.17-93ubuntu4, 2.18-0ubuntu1

Timeline

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References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-6656 third-party-advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/29/3 third-party-advisory
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2432-1 vendor-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-6656 third-party-advisory

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