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=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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-02-26

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

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

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

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

Severity: Medium