CVE-2026-77117 Affecting glibc-utils package, versions <2.31-150300.109.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.36% (28th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES155-GLIBCUTILS-20737815
  • published10 Oct 2026
  • disclosed8 Oct 2026

Introduced: 8 Oct 2026

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How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 glibc-utils to version 2.31-150300.109.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glibc-utils package and not the glibc-utils package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.5 relevant fixed versions and status.

Converting crafted SHIFT_JISX0213 input to UCS-4 or the internal wide character encoding, for example with iconv, in the GNU C Library version 2.3 to 2.44 may result in the converter making no progress, causing the calling application to hang.

Some SHIFT_JISX0213 sequences decode to two code points. If the output buffer has room for only the first one, the converter stores the second in the conversion state and returns E2BIG, but it never clears that pending character after emitting it on the next call. The converter then keeps emitting the pending character without consuming further input, so an application that retries the conversion loops forever. The input must be attacker controlled and the application must convert it with an output buffer small enough to split the two code points. Only the SHIFT_JISX0213 character set is affected, which is not commonly used. The related defect in the EUC_JISX0213 converter is tracked separately as CVE-2026-80489.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1