Name | CVE-2014-6040 |
Description | 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. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
References | DLA-97-1, DSA-3142-1 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
---|---|---|---|
glibc (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 2.19-18+deb8u14 | fixed |
stretch (security) | 2.24-11+deb9u1 | fixed | |
stretch (lts), stretch | 2.24-11+deb9u7 | fixed | |
buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 2.28-10+deb10u4 | fixed | |
bullseye | 2.31-13+deb11u11 | fixed | |
bullseye (security) | 2.31-13+deb11u10 | fixed | |
bookworm | 2.36-9+deb12u8 | fixed | |
bookworm (security) | 2.36-9+deb12u7 | fixed | |
sid, trixie | 2.40-3 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
eglibc | source | squeeze | 2.11.3-4+deb6u2 | DLA-97-1 | ||
eglibc | source | wheezy | 2.13-38+deb7u7 | DSA-3142-1 | ||
eglibc | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | |||
glibc | source | (unstable) | 2.19-12 |
[wheezy] - eglibc <no-dsa> (Will be fixed in a point update)
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17325
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-08/msg00473.html