CVE-2012-6656
eglibc - security update
EPSS 1.2%
Description
iconvdata/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.
How to fix CVE-2012-6656
To remediate CVE-2012-6656, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/eglibc—upgrade to 2.11.3-4+deb6u2 or later
- Debian/eglibc—upgrade to 2.13-38+deb7u7 or later
- Debian/glibc—upgrade to 2.17-1 or later
Is CVE-2012-6656 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 1.2%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (3)
- from 0, < 2.11.3-4+deb6u2
- from 0, < 2.13-38+deb7u7
- from 0, < 2.17-1