CVE-2012-6656

Publication date 31 December 2012

Last updated 24 July 2024

Description

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.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
eglibc	14.10 utopic	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 2.15-0ubuntu10.9
	10.04 LTS lucid	Fixed 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.19
glibc	14.10 utopic	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release
	10.04 LTS lucid	Not in release

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
eglibc	Upstream: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=6e230d11837f3ae7b375ea69d7905f0d18eb79e5

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-2432-1
GNU C Library vulnerabilities
3 December 2014