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CVE-2012-6656

Published: 31 December 2012

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.

Priority

Low

Status

Package Release Status
eglibc
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
lucid
Released (2.11.1-0ubuntu7.19)
precise
Released (2.15-0ubuntu10.9)
trusty Not vulnerable
(2.19-0ubuntu6.3)
upstream
Released (2.16)
utopic Does not exist

Patches:
upstream: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=6e230d11837f3ae7b375ea69d7905f0d18eb79e5
glibc
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
lucid Does not exist

precise Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

utopic Not vulnerable
(2.19-10ubuntu1)