CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-10228
5.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-03-02
- Last modified
- 2026-10-14
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
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.
Affected configurations
• gnu glibc (<= 2.25)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/01/10 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96525 www.securityfocus.com
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E lists.apache.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00021.html lists.debian.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-20 security.gentoo.org
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19519 Issue Tracking
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19519#c21 sourceware.org
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26224 sourceware.org
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html www.oracle.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/01/10 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96525 www.securityfocus.com
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E lists.apache.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00021.html lists.debian.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-20 security.gentoo.org
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19519 Issue Tracking
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19519#c21 sourceware.org
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26224 sourceware.org
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html www.oracle.com
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html cert-portal.siemens.com
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-831302.html cert-portal.siemens.com