Bug 2523277 - CVE-2026-77117 zig: Non-progress DoS in SHIFT_JISX0213 -&gt [epel-all]
Summary: CVE-2026-77117 zig: Non-progress DoS in SHIFT_JISX0213 -&gt [epel-all]
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora EPEL
Classification: Fedora
Component: zig
Version: epel10
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Jan Drögehoff
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Blocks: CVE-2026-77117
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Reported: 2026-08-25 08:41 UTC by Srikanth Balasubramanian
Modified: 2026-09-05 11:04 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2026-09-05 11:04:32 UTC
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Description Srikanth Balasubramanian 2026-08-25 08:41:47 UTC
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Summary: Non-progress DoS in SHIFT_JISX0213 -&gt; UCS-4 conversion state  <br/>
handling (`iconvdata/shift_jisx0213.c`): crafted input can cause repeated  <br/>
emission of a buffered code point without further input consumption,  <br/>
leading to persistent retry churn and denial of service in callers  <br/>
converting untrusted text.<br/>
Requirements to exploit: An attacker must be able to supply text that an  <br/>
application converts from `SHIFT_JISX0213` to `UCS-4`, trigger a 2-byte  <br/>
sequence that expands through `__jisx0213_to_ucs_combining`, and have the  <br/>
caller retry after `E2BIG` with the same conversion state once only enough  <br/>
output space remains for the first of the two emitted code points.  <br/>
Applications that never use this conversion path, or that abort on repeated  <br/>
no-progress `E2BIG`, are not practically exposed.<br/>
Component affected: `glibc-2.42-11.1.hum1`; `iconvdata/shift_jisx0213.c`,  <br/>
`from_shift_jisx0213` (`BODY` macro) in the `SHIFT_JISX0213` -&gt; `UCS-4`  <br/>
conversion path.<br/>

Comment 1 Renich Bon Ciric 2026-09-05 11:04:32 UTC
Zig is not affected by this vulnerability.

While `zig.spec` declares `Provides: bundled(glibc) = 2.43` to account for embedded headers and ABI symbol metadata, Zig does not bundle or compile the GNU C Library implementation of the affected routine.

Specifically:
- Zig only ships glibc ABI symbol tables (`abilists`) to generate compile-time dynamic linking stubs (`.so`), generic headers, and minimal C runtime startup objects (`crt1.o`, `elf-init`, `stat` shims).
- Zig compiler binaries and generated executables dynamically link against the host/target system's runtime `libc.so.6`.

Closing as NOTABUG.


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