Out-of-Bounds Affecting glibc-static package, versions <0:2.17-78.0.1.el7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.41% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE7-GLIBCSTATIC-2491208
  • published10 Apr 2022
  • disclosed5 Dec 2014

Introduced: 5 Dec 2014

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

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:7 glibc-static to version 0:2.17-78.0.1.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2015-0327.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glibc-static package and not the glibc-static package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:7 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.

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