Bug 1428290 (CVE-2016-10228) - CVE-2016-10228 glibc: iconv program can hang when invoked with the -c option
Summary: CVE-2016-10228 glibc: iconv program can hang when invoked with the -c option
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2016-10228
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1427734 1427740 1427741 1428292 1704868 1968659 1968660 1968661
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-03-02 08:59 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-06-17 15:55 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:08:18 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2021:1585 0 None None None 2021-06-17 15:55:10 UTC
Sourceware 19519 0 P2 RESOLVED iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte sequences (CVE-2016-10228) 2020-11-09 21:05:34 UTC

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
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