CVE-2014-6040
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 6.6%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 6.6% (94th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2014-5928)
- Published
- December 5, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2014-5928 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- gnu / glibc
- gnu / glibc
- gnu / glibc
- gnu / glibc
- gnu / glibc
- gnu / glibc
- gnu / glibc
- gnu / glibc
- gnu / glibc
- gnu / glibc
- gnu / glibc
- gnu / glibc
- gnu / glibc
- gnu / glibc
- gnu / glibc
- gnu / glibc
- gnu / glibc
- gnu / glibc
- gnu / glibc
- gnu / glibc
- gnu / glibc
- gnu / glibc
- gnu / glibc
- gnu / glibc
- gnu / glibc
- gnu / glibc
- gnu / glibc
- gnu / glibc
- gnu / glibc
References
- http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-0016.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62100
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62146
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2432-1(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3142(Vendor Advisory)
- 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(Exploit)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69472
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-02
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17325(Exploit)
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=41488498b6
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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