Out-of-Bounds Affecting glibc package, versions <2.19-12
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
1.57% (87th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN10-GLIBC-356592
- published 5 Dec 2014
- disclosed 5 Dec 2014
Introduced: 5 Dec 2014
CVE-2014-6040 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:10
glibc
to version 2.19-12 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 Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:10
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.
References
- ADVISORY
- Debian Security Advisory
- Gentoo Security Advisory
- http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-0016.html
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17325
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=41488498b6
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2432-1
- OSS security Advisory
- OSS security Advisory
- Secunia Advisory
- Secunia Advisory
- Security Focus
- Ubuntu CVE Tracker
- secalert@redhat.com
- secalert@redhat.com
- secalert@redhat.com
- secalert@redhat.com
- secalert@redhat.com
- secalert@redhat.com