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SUSE: CVE-2024-2961: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/17/2024
Created
04/24/2024
Added
04/23/2024
Modified
04/23/2024

Description

The iconv() function in the GNU C Library versions 2.39 and older may overflow the output buffer passed to it by up to 4 bytes when converting strings to the ISO-2022-CN-EXT character set, which may be used to crash an application or overwrite a neighbouring variable.

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-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

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