CVE-2012-6656 Information

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.

Reference

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3142 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:175 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/29/3 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/02/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69472 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2432-1 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14134 https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=6e230d11837f3ae7b375ea69d7905f0d18eb79e5