CVE-2020-27618CWE-835

CVE-2020-27618

Medium · published February 27, 2021

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
60.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

The iconv function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.32 and earlier, when processing invalid multi-byte input sequences in IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 encodings, fails to advance the input state, which could lead to an infinite loop in applications, resulting in a denial of service, a different vulnerability from CVE-2016-10228.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00938 · 60.5th percentile
Weakness
CWE-835 · Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
Published
2021-02-27T04:15Z
Affected products (14)
ProductVersionsFixed in
gnu/glibc≤ 2.32—
netapp/ontap_select_deploy_administration_utilityall versions—
netapp/a250_firmwareall versions—
netapp/500f_firmwareall versions—
netapp/h410c_firmwareall versions—
netapp/h300s_firmwareall versions—
netapp/h500s_firmwareall versions—
netapp/h700s_firmwareall versions—
netapp/h300e_firmwareall versions—
netapp/h500e_firmwareall versions—
netapp/h700e_firmwareall versions—
netapp/h410s_firmwareall versions—
oracle/communications_cloud_native_core_service_communication_proxyall versions—
debian/debian_linuxall versions—
References (16)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 26 FEB 00:00Z
    The iconv function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.32 and earlier, when processing invalid multi-byte input sequences in IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388…
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