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National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability Database

NVD

National Vulnerability Database
  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2012-6656 Detail

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.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3142 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:175 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/29/3 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/02/1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69472 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2432-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14134 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Exploit  Issue Tracking 
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6e230d11837f3ae7b375ea69d7905f0d18eb79e5 CVE, Inc., Red Hat

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-20 Improper Input Validation cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2012-6656
NVD Published Date:
12/05/2014
NVD Last Modified:
04/12/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.