CVE-2016-10228CWE-20

CVE-2016-10228

Medium · published March 2, 2017

CVSS v3.0
5.9
EPSS
4%
Percentile
90.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.0
5.9 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.04112 · 90.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation
Published
2017-03-02T06:59Z
Affected products (1)
ProductVersionsFixed in
gnu/glibc≤ 2.25—
References (20)
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/01/10 · [email protected]http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96525 · [email protected]https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E · [email protected]https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00021.html · [email protected]https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-20 · [email protected]https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19519 · [email protected]https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19519#c21 · [email protected]https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26224 · [email protected]https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html · [email protected]http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/01/10 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96525 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00021.html · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-20 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19519 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19519#c21 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26224 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html · 0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5ehttps://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-831302.html · 0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 02 MAR 00:00Z
    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…
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