CVE-2012-6656

CVSS V2 Medium 5 CVSS V3 None
Description
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2012-6656
  • Assigner
  • secalert@redhat.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2014-12-05T16:59:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2017-07-01T01:29:03
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-20 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/20.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 2.16
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 5
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 10
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2432-1 Third Party Advisory
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=6e230d11837f3ae7b375ea69d7905f0d18eb79e5 Patch Issue Tracking
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69472 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/02/1 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:175 Broken Link
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14134 Exploit Issue Tracking
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/29/3 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3142 Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6656
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-6656
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 09:41:08 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 02:33:05 2014-12-05T16:59Z 2014-12-05T16:59:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-02 02:33:05 2017-07-01T01:29:03 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-02 02:33:05 Modified Vulnerability Status updated