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CVE-2020-27618
medium
Description
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.
References
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html
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://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210401-0006/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-07
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00021.html