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Alma Linux: CVE-2021-3326: Moderate: glibc security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2021-1585)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2021-3326: Moderate: glibc security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2021-1585)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/27/2021
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
09/15/2022

Description

The iconv function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.32 and earlier, when processing invalid input sequences in the ISO-2022-JP-3 encoding, fails an assertion in the code path and aborts the program, potentially resulting in 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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