CVE-2014-6040

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GNU C Library (aka glibc) before 2.20 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds rea

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.

MEDIUM · CVSS 5 EPSS 0.07187

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EPSS percentile: top 8% of all CVEs by exploitation likelihood
Public exploit or PoC is available

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Weakness Classification

CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

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Affected Products & Versions

gnu glibc<= 2.19

gnu glibcall versions

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Public Exploits & PoCs

pocsourceware.org · show_bug.cgi?id=17325sourceware.org

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Scoring & Timeline

MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · secalert@redhat.com

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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.

v2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Published to NVD05 Dec 2014 · 04:59 PM

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Vendor Advisories

suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:10154-1
rhsaRHSA-2015:0327Low
usnUSN-2432-1
rhsaRHSA-2015:0016Moderate
suse-csafsuse-ru-2015_0794-1
Show all 8 vendor advisoriessuse-csafSUSE-SU-2015:0253-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2015:0439-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2015:0551-1

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References & Sources

Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-0016.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/62100

http://secunia.com/advisories/62146

http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2432-1PatchVendor Advisory

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3142Vendor Advisory

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:175

Show all 11 references

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/29/3

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/02/1Exploit

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69472

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-02

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git

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