Improper input validation in Gnu Glibc

CVE-2012-6656

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.

Vulnerability class: Drupalgeddon 2 (CVE-2018-7600)

EPSS: 0.034 (87.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Gnu Glibc
Canonical Ubuntu_linux — versions 10.04, 12.04, 14.04
Debian Debian_linux — versions 7.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation

References

secalert@redhat.com (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_UBUNTU, vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
secalert@redhat.com (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRIVA, Broken Link)
secalert@redhat.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
secalert@redhat.com (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Exploit, Issue Tracking)
secalert@redhat.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
secalert@redhat.com (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN)