vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2020-29562: glibc -- security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Dec 4, 2020
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

The iconv function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.30 to 2.32, when converting UCS4 text containing an irreversible character, fails an assertion in the code path and aborts the program, potentially resulting in a denial of service.

Solution

debian-upgrade-glibc
Title
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