DEBIAN-CVE-2014-6040

Advisory lineage Upstream: 1 Downstream: 2
Upstream
CVE-2014-6040
Downstream
DLA-97-1DSA-3142-1
Published: 05 Dec 2014, 16:59
Last modified:28 Apr 2026, 20:13

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, 20:13
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.

Affected Systems

  • debian•glibc

    < 2.19-12 | < 2.19-12 | < 2.19-12 | < 2.19-12

References (1)