CVE-2012-6656

NameCVE-2012-6656
Descriptioniconvdata/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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-97-1, DSA-3142-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
glibc (PTS)buster2.28-10+deb10u1fixed
buster (security)2.28-10+deb10u2fixed
bullseye2.31-13+deb11u8fixed
bullseye (security)2.31-13+deb11u7fixed
bookworm, bookworm (security)2.36-9+deb12u4fixed
trixie2.37-15fixed
sid2.37-15.1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
eglibcsourcesqueeze2.11.3-4+deb6u2DLA-97-1
eglibcsourcewheezy2.13-38+deb7u7DSA-3142-1
eglibcsource(unstable)(unfixed)
glibcsource(unstable)2.17-1

Notes

[wheezy] - eglibc <no-dsa> (Will be fixed in a point update)
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14134
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=6e230d11837f3ae7b375ea69d7905f0d18eb79e5

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