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F5 Networks: K16435 (CVE-2014-6040): GNU C Library vulnerability CVE-2014-6040

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F5 Networks: K16435 (CVE-2014-6040): GNU C Library vulnerability CVE-2014-6040

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/05/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/14/2016
Modified
02/16/2017

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.

Solution(s)

  • f5-big-ip-upgrade-latest

References

  • 62100
  • 62146
  • USN-2432-1
  • DSA-3142
  • MDVSA-2014:175
  • 69472
  • GLSA-201602-02
  • CVE-2014-6040
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