CVE-2014-6040

Publication date 2 September 2014

Last updated 24 July 2024

Description

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.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
eglibc	14.10 utopic	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 2.19-0ubuntu6.4
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 2.15-0ubuntu10.9
	10.04 LTS lucid	Fixed 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.19
glibc	14.10 utopic	Fixed 2.19-10ubuntu2.1
	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
glibc	Upstream: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=41488498b6d9440ee66ab033808cce8323bba7ac

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

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