Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2014-6040 First vendor Publication 2014-12-05
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2024-11-21

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6040

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 114

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2016-02-18 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201602-02.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-02-17 Name : The remote OracleVM host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclevm_OVMSA-2016-0013.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-09-17 Name : The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch.
File : f5_bigip_SOL16435.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-05-20 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2015-0170-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-05-20 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2015-0167-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-05-20 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2015-0164-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-05-20 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2014-1129-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-05-20 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2014-1128-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-30 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2015-168.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-26 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20150305_glibc_on_SL7_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-26 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-97.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-26 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-139.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-25 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2015-495.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-18 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2015-0327.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-10 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2015-0327.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-05 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2015-0327.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-05 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2015-2845.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-02-11 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_11_glibc-150129.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-01-28 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3142.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-01-09 Name : The remote OracleVM host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclevm_OVMSA-2015-0003.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-01-09 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2015-468.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-01-08 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20150107_glibc_on_SL6_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-01-08 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2015-0016.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-01-08 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2015-0016.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-01-08 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2015-0016.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-12-04 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-2432-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-10-24 Name : The remote Slackware host is missing a security update.
File : Slackware_SSA_2014-296-01.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-09-12 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2014-175.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-09-12 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2014-536.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-0016.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/62100
http://secunia.com/advisories/62146
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2432-1
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
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-02
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17325
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=41488498b6
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