vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-10228: glibc: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 2, 2017
Added
Jan 25, 2021
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

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

gentoo-linux-upgrade-sys-libs-glibc
Title
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