Reachable Assertion Affecting glibc package, versions <0:2.26-41.amzn2
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- published 27 Sep 2021
- disclosed 4 Dec 2020
Introduced: 4 Dec 2020
CVE-2020-29562 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2
glibc
to version 0:2.26-41.amzn2 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2021-1605
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glibc
package and not the glibc
package as distributed by Amazon-Linux
.
See How to fix?
for Amazon-Linux:2
relevant fixed versions and status.
The iconv function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.30 to 2.32, when converting UCS4 text containing an irreversible character, fails an assertion in the code path and aborts the program, potentially resulting in a denial of service.
References
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210122-0004/
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-29562
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TVCUNLQ3HXGS4VPUQKWTJGRAW2KTFGXS/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-20
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26923
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772@%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TVCUNLQ3HXGS4VPUQKWTJGRAW2KTFGXS/