Out-of-Bounds Affecting glibc package, versions <0:2.12-1.149.el6_6.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.5% (88th percentile)

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications
  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS6-GLIBC-2112274
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed28 Aug 2014

Introduced: 28 Aug 2014

CVE-2014-6040  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Centos:6 glibc to version 0:2.12-1.149.el6_6.4 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glibc package and not the glibc package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1