CVE-2016-10228

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.

References

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26224

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19519#c21

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19519

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-20

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00021.html

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96525

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/01/10

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3

EPSS