UBUNTU-CVE-2014-6040

Advisory lineage Upstream: 1 Downstream: 1
Upstream
CVE-2014-6040
Downstream
USN-2432-1
Published: 02 Sept 2014, 00:00
Last modified:22 Apr 2026, 09:47

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

02 Sept 2014, 00:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
22 Apr 2026, 09:47
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

  • ubuntu•eglibc

    < 2.19-0ubuntu6.4

References (5)