Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Dec 5, 2014· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2012-6656
CVE-2012-6656
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.
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Affected products
7cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*+ 3 more
- cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Patches
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References
9- sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cginvdExploitIssue Tracking
- www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3142nvdThird Party Advisory
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/29/3nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/02/1nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/69472nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2432-1nvdThird Party Advisory
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisoriesnvdBroken Link
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04nvd
- sourceware.org/git/nvd
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