Upstream information

CVE-2012-6656 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 5
Vector AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial
SUSE Bugzilla entries: 894556 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 903057 [RESOLVED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3
  • glibc >= 2.11.3-17.80.3
  • glibc-32bit >= 2.11.3-17.80.3
  • glibc-devel >= 2.11.3-17.80.3
  • glibc-devel-32bit >= 2.11.3-17.80.3
  • glibc-html >= 2.11.3-17.80.3
  • glibc-i18ndata >= 2.11.3-17.80.3
  • glibc-info >= 2.11.3-17.80.3
  • glibc-locale >= 2.11.3-17.80.3
  • glibc-locale-32bit >= 2.11.3-17.80.3
  • nscd >= 2.11.3-17.80.3
 Patchnames:
sdksp3-glibc
sledsp3-glibc
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4
  • glibc-html >= 2.11.3-17.84.1
  • glibc-info >= 2.11.3-17.84.1
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 GA glibc-html-2.11.3-17.84.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1-LTSS
  • glibc >= 2.11.1-0.62.1
  • glibc-32bit >= 2.11.1-0.62.1
  • glibc-devel >= 2.11.1-0.62.1
  • glibc-devel-32bit >= 2.11.1-0.62.1
  • glibc-html >= 2.11.1-0.62.1
  • glibc-i18ndata >= 2.11.1-0.62.1
  • glibc-info >= 2.11.1-0.62.1
  • glibc-locale >= 2.11.1-0.62.1
  • glibc-locale-32bit >= 2.11.1-0.62.1
  • glibc-profile >= 2.11.1-0.62.1
  • glibc-profile-32bit >= 2.11.1-0.62.1
  • nscd >= 2.11.1-0.62.1
 Patchnames:
slessp1-glibc
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2-LTSS
  • glibc >= 2.11.3-17.45.57.6
  • glibc-32bit >= 2.11.3-17.45.57.6
  • glibc-devel >= 2.11.3-17.45.57.6
  • glibc-devel-32bit >= 2.11.3-17.45.57.6
  • glibc-html >= 2.11.3-17.45.57.6
  • glibc-i18ndata >= 2.11.3-17.45.57.6
  • glibc-info >= 2.11.3-17.45.57.6
  • glibc-locale >= 2.11.3-17.45.57.6
  • glibc-locale-32bit >= 2.11.3-17.45.57.6
  • glibc-profile >= 2.11.3-17.45.57.6
  • glibc-profile-32bit >= 2.11.3-17.45.57.6
  • nscd >= 2.11.3-17.45.57.6
 Patchnames:
slessp2-glibc
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP3
  • glibc >= 2.11.3-17.80.3
  • glibc-32bit >= 2.11.3-17.80.3
  • glibc-devel >= 2.11.3-17.80.3
  • glibc-devel-32bit >= 2.11.3-17.80.3
  • glibc-html >= 2.11.3-17.80.3
  • glibc-i18ndata >= 2.11.3-17.80.3
  • glibc-info >= 2.11.3-17.80.3
  • glibc-locale >= 2.11.3-17.80.3
  • glibc-locale-32bit >= 2.11.3-17.80.3
  • glibc-locale-x86 >= 2.11.3-17.80.3
  • glibc-profile >= 2.11.3-17.80.3
  • glibc-profile-32bit >= 2.11.3-17.80.3
  • glibc-profile-x86 >= 2.11.3-17.80.3
  • glibc-x86 >= 2.11.3-17.80.3
  • nscd >= 2.11.3-17.80.3
 Patchnames:
sdksp3-glibc
slessp3-glibc
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
  • glibc >= 2.11.3-17.84.1
  • glibc-32bit >= 2.11.3-17.84.1
  • glibc-devel >= 2.11.3-17.84.1
  • glibc-devel-32bit >= 2.11.3-17.84.1
  • glibc-html >= 2.11.3-17.84.1
  • glibc-i18ndata >= 2.11.3-17.84.1
  • glibc-info >= 2.11.3-17.84.1
  • glibc-locale >= 2.11.3-17.84.1
  • glibc-locale-32bit >= 2.11.3-17.84.1
  • glibc-locale-x86 >= 2.11.3-17.84.1
  • glibc-profile >= 2.11.3-17.84.1
  • glibc-profile-32bit >= 2.11.3-17.84.1
  • glibc-profile-x86 >= 2.11.3-17.84.1
  • glibc-x86 >= 2.11.3-17.84.1
  • nscd >= 2.11.3-17.84.1
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 GA glibc-2.11.3-17.84.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 GA glibc-html-2.11.3-17.84.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP3
  • glibc-html >= 2.11.3-17.80.3
  • glibc-info >= 2.11.3-17.80.3
 Patchnames:
sdksp3-glibc

Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products under Long Term Service Pack support and receiving important and critical security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 LTSS EXTREME CORE glibc Affected
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SLES for SAP Applications 11 SP2 glibc Released
SLES for SAP Applications 11 SP3 glibc Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP1 glibc Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2 glibc Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3 glibc Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4 glibc Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Enterprise Server 11 SP1 for SAP Enterprise Search glibc Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11 SP3 glibc Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4-LTSS glibc Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 glibc Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 LTSS glibc Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1-LTSS glibc Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 glibc Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 LTSS glibc Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2-LTSS glibc Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 glibc Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 LTSS glibc Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-LTSS glibc Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 glibc Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 LTSS glibc Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS glibc Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP1 glibc Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP2 glibc Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP3 glibc Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4 glibc Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Business All-in-One 11 SP1 glibc Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP1 glibc Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2 glibc Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP3 glibc Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 glibc Released

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Sep 2 09:29:19 2014
CVE page last modified: Tue Dec 17 19:27:14 2024