CVE-2012-6656
Estado: ModificadaMedia (5)—
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.
CVSS
- Versión: 2.0
- Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Puntuación base: 5
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 3.44%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 89
- Fecha de la puntuación: 7/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
Tecnologías afectadas (3)
CWE
- CWE-20
Referencias
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3142
- 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
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69472
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2432-1
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14134
- https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6e230d11837f3ae7b375ea69d7905f0d18eb79e5
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3142
- 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
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69472
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2432-1
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14134
- https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6e230d11837f3ae7b375ea69d7905f0d18eb79e5
JSON original (NVD)
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