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CVE-2014-6040 Detail

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.

Source:  MITRE
Description Last Modified:  12/05/2014

Impact

CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.0 MEDIUM
Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) (V2 legend)
Impact Subscore: 2.9
Exploitability Subscore: 10.0

Access Vector (AV): Network
Access Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (AU): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Partial
Additional Information:
Allows disruption of service

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Hyperlink Resource
http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-0016.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/62100
http://secunia.com/advisories/62146
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2432-1 Patch Vendor Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3142 Vendor Advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:175
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/29/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/02/1 Exploit
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69472
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-02
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17325 Exploit
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=41488498b6 Exploit

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2014-6040
NVD Published Date:
12/05/2014
NVD Last Modified:
01/02/2017