CVE-2014-6040

Public on 2014-12-05
Modified on 2015-03-23
Description
An out-of-bounds read flaw was found in the way glibc's iconv() function converted certain encoded data to UTF-8. An attacker able to make an application call the iconv() function with a specially crafted argument could use this flaw to crash that application.
Severity
Medium severity
Medium
CVSS v3 Base Score
2.1
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 glibc 2015-01-08 ALAS-2015-468 Fixed
Amazon Linux 1 glibc 2015-03-23 ALAS-2015-495 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv2 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P