CVE-2012-6656
EPSS 1.2%eglibc - security update
Published: 12/5/2014Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2012-6656
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.
Affected packages (3)
- Debian/eglibcfrom 0, < 2.11.3-4+deb6u2
- Debian/eglibcfrom 0, < 2.13-38+deb7u7
- Debian/glibcfrom 0, < 2.17-1