CVE-2014-6040

Publication date 2 September 2014

Last updated 24 July 2024


Ubuntu priority

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
eglibc 14.10 utopic Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 2.19-0ubuntu6.4
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 2.15-0ubuntu10.9
10.04 LTS lucid
Fixed 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.19
glibc 14.10 utopic
Fixed 2.19-10ubuntu2.1
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
12.04 LTS precise Not in release
10.04 LTS lucid Not in release

Patch details

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Package Patch details
glibc