{"id":"CVE-2014-6040","details":"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or (5) IBM1364 encoded data to UTF-8.","modified":"2026-01-27T04:12:53.904982Z","published":"2014-12-05T16:59:09Z","withdrawn":"2026-01-27T04:12:53.904982Z","related":["MGASA-2014-0376","SUSE-RU-2015:0794-1","SUSE-SU-2015:0253-1","SUSE-SU-2015:0439-1","SUSE-SU-2015:0551-1","openSUSE-SU-2024:10154-1"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/62100"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/62146"},{"type":"FIX","url":"http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2432-1"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3142"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:175"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-02"},{"type":"EVIDENCE","url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/02/1"},{"type":"EVIDENCE","url":"https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17325"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-0016.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/29/3"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69472"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=41488498b6"}],"schema_version":"1.7.3"}