Description
The iconv program in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.31 and earlier, when invoked with multiple suffixes in the destination encoding (TRANSLATE or IGNORE) along with the -c option, enters an infinite loop when processing invalid multi-byte input sequences, leading to a denial of service.
CVSS breakdown
CVSS 3.0
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Affected products
- gnu / glibc2.25
References
- MISChttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96525
- MISChttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-20
- MAILING_LISThttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
- MISChttps://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19519
- MAILING_LISThttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/01/10
- MISChttps://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19519#c21
- MISChttps://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26224
- MAILING_LISThttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00021.html
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