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Alma Linux: CVE-2016-10228: Moderate: glibc security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2021-1585)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2016-10228: Moderate: glibc security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2021-1585)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/02/2017
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
09/15/2022

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-glibc-benchtests
  • alma-upgrade-glibc-nss-devel
  • alma-upgrade-glibc-static
  • alma-upgrade-nss_hesiod

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