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SUSE: CVE-2020-29562: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2020-29562: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/04/2020
Created
03/02/2021
Added
02/27/2021
Modified
02/04/2022

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(s)

  • suse-upgrade-glibc
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-devel
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-devel-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-devel-static
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-devel-static-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-extra
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-html
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-i18ndata
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-info
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-lang
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-locale
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-locale-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-locale-base
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-locale-base-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-profile
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-profile-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-utils
  • suse-upgrade-glibc-utils-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-nscd

References

  • SUSE-SU-2021:0653-1
  • SUSE-SU-2021:1165-1
  • CVE-2020-29562

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