CVE-2012-6656

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2012-05-23
CWE:
CWE-119
Bugzilla:
1135840: CVE-2012-6656 glibc: crash in IBM930 decoding

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2012-6656 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable. This issue does not affect the versions of glibc in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, or 7.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 2.1
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 glibc Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 glibc Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 glibc Not affected

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