CVE-2014-6040

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 9
Modified
Published: 05 Dec 2014, 16:00
Last modified:06 Aug 2024, 12:03

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
31/100
CVSS Score
5 MEDIUM
v2.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
7.19% LOW
7% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
2 found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

05 Dec 2014, 16:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
06 Aug 2024, 12:03
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

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.

CVSS Metrics

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

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 7.19%• Percentile: 92%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-119•Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

    The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.

Affected Systems

  • gnu•glibc

    ≤ 2.19 | 2.0 | 2.0.1 | 2.0.2 | 2.0.3 | 2.0.4 | 2.0.5 | 2.0.6 | 2.1 | 2.11 | 2.1.1.6 | 2.12 | 2.13 | 2.19 | 2.10.1 | 2.11.1 | 2.11.2 | 2.11.3 | 2.12.1 | 2.12.2 | 2.14 | 2.14.1 | 2.15 | 2.16 | 2.17 | 2.18

References (12)