Out-of-bounds Read Vulnerability in GNU C Library (glibc) 2.20

CVE-2014-6040 · MEDIUM Severity

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

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.

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