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DEBIAN-CVE-2012-6656

DEBIAN-CVE-2012-6656 PUBLISHED CVSS 8.699999809265137 HIGH

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.

Risk Scores

CVSS v4.0
8.699999809265137
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:13glibc0, 0, 0
Debian:11glibc0, 0, 0
Debian:14glibc0, 0, 0
Debian:12glibc0, 0, 0

Timeline

  • Dec 5, 2014 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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