UBUNTU-CVE-2012-6656

Advisory lineage Upstream: 1 Downstream: 1
Upstream
CVE-2012-6656
Downstream
USN-2432-1
Published: 31 Dec 2012, 00:00
Last modified:04 Feb 2026, 04:28

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

31 Dec 2012, 00:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
04 Feb 2026, 04:28
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

  • ubuntu•eglibc

    < 2.19-0ubuntu6.3

References (4)