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CVE-2012-6656

CVE-2012-6656

EPSS 3.4%
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 products
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References
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14134https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6e230d11837f3ae7b375ea69d7905f0d18eb79e5http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3142http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:175http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/29/3http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/02/1http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69472http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2432-1