Buffer overflow in GNU Glibc

CVE-2014-6040

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.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.066 (93.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Gnu Glibc — versions 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References