{"cve":"CVE-2014-6040","nvd":{"published":"2014-12-05T16:59:09.910","modified":"2026-06-17T00:12:29.860","status":"Modified","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.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":["CWE-119"],"references":["http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-0016.html","http://secunia.com/advisories/62100","http://secunia.com/advisories/62146","http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2432-1","http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3142"],"products":["gnu:glibc"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T20:34:45.729216538+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2014-6040","score":0.06564,"percentile":0.9382,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}