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CVE-2020-29562

medium

Description

The iconv function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.30 to 2.32, when converting UCS4 text containing an irreversible character, fails an assertion in the code path and aborts the program, potentially resulting in a denial of service.

References

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210122-0004/

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

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TVCUNLQ3HXGS4VPUQKWTJGRAW2KTFGXS/

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26923

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-12-04

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00024