CVE - CVE-2012-6656

CVE-ID
CVE-2012-6656	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
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
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MLIST:[oss-security] 20140829 CVE request: glibc character set conversion from IBM code pages URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/29/3 MLIST:[oss-security] 20140902 Re: CVE request: glibc character set conversion from IBM code pages URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/02/1 CONFIRM:https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14134 CONFIRM:https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=6e230d11837f3ae7b375ea69d7905f0d18eb79e5 DEBIAN:DSA-3142 URL:http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3142 GENTOO:GLSA-201503-04 URL:https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04 MANDRIVA:MDVSA-2014:175 URL:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:175 UBUNTU:USN-2432-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2432-1 BID:69472 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69472
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Date Entry Created
20140901	Disclaimer: The entry creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20140901)
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