CVE-2012-6656

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 5
Modified
Published: 05 Dec 2014, 16:00
Last modified:06 Aug 2024, 21:36

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
30/100
CVSS Score
5 MEDIUM
v2.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
1.18% LOW
1% probability -0.23%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
1 found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

05 Dec 2014, 16:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
06 Aug 2024, 21:36
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 5AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 1.18%• Percentile: 79%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-20•Improper Input Validation

    The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.

Affected Systems

  • canonical•ubuntu_linux

    10.04 | 12.04 | 14.04 | 14.10

  • debian•debian_linux

    7.0

  • gnu•glibc

    ≤ 2.16

References (9)