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CVE-2012-6656

MEDIUM · CVSS 5 EPSS 3.44%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2014-12-05 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.0. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.

CVE
CVE-2012-6656
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5
EPSS
3.44%

Original NVD 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.