ghsa-g6fx-pmc7-2qhp
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-05-17 02:39
Modified
2025-04-12 12:42
Details

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.

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{
  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2012-6656"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-20"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2014-12-05T16:59:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "GHSA-g6fx-pmc7-2qhp",
  "modified": "2025-04-12T12:42:34Z",
  "published": "2022-05-17T02:39:19Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6656"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14134"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6e230d11837f3ae7b375ea69d7905f0d18eb79e5"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=6e230d11837f3ae7b375ea69d7905f0d18eb79e5"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3142"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:175"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/29/3"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/02/1"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69472"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2432-1"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": []
}


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