Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.precise:def:20146040000
Revision Date:2014-12-05Version:1
Title:CVE-2014-6040 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (precise) - low.
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.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2014-6040
Platform(s):Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
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Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (precise) is installed.
  • AND The 'eglibc' package in precise was vulnerable but has been fixed (note: '2.15-0ubuntu10.9').
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