VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-6040

medium
Published 2014-12-05 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed2.19-12
debian debianbullseyefixed2.19-12
debian debianforkyfixed2.19-12
debian debiansidfixed2.19-12
debian debiantrixiefixed2.19-12

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gnuglibc{"endIncluding":"2.19"}
gnuglibc2.0
gnuglibc2.0.1
gnuglibc2.0.2
gnuglibc2.0.3
gnuglibc2.0.4
gnuglibc2.0.5
gnuglibc2.0.6
gnuglibc2.1
gnuglibc2.1.1
gnuglibc2.1.1.6
gnuglibc2.1.2
gnuglibc2.1.3
gnuglibc2.1.9
gnuglibc2.10.1
gnuglibc2.11
gnuglibc2.11.1
gnuglibc2.11.2
gnuglibc2.11.3
gnuglibc2.12
gnuglibc2.12.1
gnuglibc2.12.2
gnuglibc2.13
gnuglibc2.14
gnuglibc2.14.1
gnuglibc2.15
gnuglibc2.16
gnuglibc2.17
gnuglibc2.18

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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