CVE-2016-10228 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/01/10 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96525 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19519 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19519c21 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26224

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

5.9