Infinite Loop Denial of Service Vulnerability in GNU C Library's iconv Program

CVE-2016-10228 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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