Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') Affecting glibc-langpack-rw package, versions <0:2.28-151.el8


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.97% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-GLIBCLANGPACKRW-3969197
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed25 Jan 2017

Introduced: 25 Jan 2017

CVE-2016-10228  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-835  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 glibc-langpack-rw to version 0:2.28-151.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2021:1585.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glibc-langpack-rw package and not the glibc-langpack-rw package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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 Scores

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