Denial of Service Vulnerability in iconvdata/ibm930.c in GNU C Library (glibc)

CVE-2012-6656 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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