Field Assessment
AI analysis pending.
CVE
CVE-2014-6040
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5
EPSS
6.56%
Original Filing — NVD Description
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.