CVE-2014-6040
EPSS 7.2%Published: 12/5/2014Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
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.
Affected packages (1)
- Debian/glibcfrom 0, < 2.19-12