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Out-of-Bounds Affecting glibc package, versions <0:2.17-78.el7

0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 1.57% (88th percentile)
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NVD
5.3 medium
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Red Hat
4 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS7-GLIBC-2042712
  • published 26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed 28 Aug 2014
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Introduced: 28 Aug 2014

CVE-2014-6040 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-119 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Centos:7 glibc to version 0:2.17-78.el7 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glibc package and not the glibc package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

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