Bug 1428290 (CVE-2016-10228)

Summary: CVE-2016-10228 glibc: iconv program can hang when invoked with the -c option
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: arjun.is, ashankar, codonell, dj, fweimer, glibc-bugzilla, law, mfabian, mnewsome, pfrankli, sardella, siddhesh, sipoyare
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Bug Depends On: 1427734, 1427740, 1427741, 1428292, 1704868, 1968659, 1968660, 1968661    
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-03-02 08:59:40 UTC 
A vulnerability was found in the iconv program provided by glibc when it's invoked with the -c option. It can enter an infinite loop while parsing an invalid multi-byte sequence.

References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q1/538

Upstream bug:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19519
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-03-02 09:02:15 UTC 
Created glibc tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1428292]
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2021-05-18 13:24:53 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2021:1585 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1585