CVE-2014-6040
EPSS 7.2%
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.
How to fix CVE-2014-6040
To remediate CVE-2014-6040, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/glibc—upgrade to 2.19-12 or later
Is CVE-2014-6040 being exploited?
Moderate — EPSS is 7.2%. Track this CVE but it's not at the top of the prioritisation list.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 2.19-12