DEBIAN-CVE-2012-6656

Advisory lineage Upstream: 1 Downstream: 2
Upstream
CVE-2012-6656
Downstream
DLA-97-1DSA-3142-1
Published: 05 Dec 2014, 16:59
Last modified:28 Apr 2026, 20:12

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
minimal
0/100
CVSS Score
No data
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

05 Dec 2014, 16:59
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
28 Apr 2026, 20:12
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.

Affected Systems

  • debian•glibc

    < 2.17-1 | < 2.17-1 | < 2.17-1 | < 2.17-1

References (1)