VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2014-6040
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,…
MEDIUM 5.0EPSS 6.56%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (6.56%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
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 2.0
- 5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- EPSS
- 6.56% probability · 93th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-119
- Affected
- gnu/glibc
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-0016.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62100
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62146
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2432-1Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3142Vendor Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:175
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/29/3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/02/1Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69472
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-02
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17325Exploit
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=41488498b6
- http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-0016.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62100
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62146
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2432-1Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3142Vendor Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:175
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/29/3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/02/1Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69472
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-02
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17325Exploit
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=41488498b6
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.