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Improper Input Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package eglibc  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-EGLIBC-640982
  • published5 Dec 2014
  • disclosed5 Dec 2014
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Introduced: 5 Dec 2014

CVE-2012-6656  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream eglibc package and not the eglibc package as distributed by Ubuntu.

iconvdata/ibm930.c in GNU C Library (aka glibc) before 2.16 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a multibyte character value of "0xffff" to the iconv function when converting IBM930 encoded data to UTF-8.