CVE-2014-6040 describes an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the GNU C Library (glibc) versions prior to 2.20. This flaw allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to trigger a denial of service by providing a specially crafted multibyte character value (0xffff) to the iconv function when converting specific IBM-encoded data to UTF-8. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with low attack complexity and a potential impact of system availability loss. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 2.19CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:2.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:2.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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