CVE-2016-10228
MEDIUMglibc < 2.25 - Denial of Service via Iconv Invalid Multi-Byte Input
Title source: llmDescription
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 (9)
Core 9
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96525
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-20
Mailing List mailing-list
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E
Mailing List mailing-list
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00021.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/01/10
Issue Tracking
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19519
Vendor Advisory
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
Scores
CVSS v3
5.9
EPSS
0.0038
EPSS Percentile
59.5%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-20
Status
published
Products (1)
gnu/glibc
< 2.25
Published
Mar 02, 2017
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026