Out-of-Bounds Affecting glibc package, versions <2.19-12
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-GLIBC-516452
- 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:11 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:11 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
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-6040
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3142
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-02
- 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
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/29/3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/02/1
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62100
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62146
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69472
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2014-6040
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:0016
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:0327
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-6040
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1135841
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:175
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=41488498b6
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