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CVE-2020-27618

Published: Feb 26, 2021

Modified: Jun 9, 2025

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Description

The iconv function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.32 and earlier, when processing invalid multi-byte input sequences in IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 encodings, fails to advance the input state, which could lead to an infinite loop in applications, resulting in a denial of service, a different vulnerability from CVE-2016-10228.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26224

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19519#c21

vendor-advisory

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210401-0006/

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html

[debian-lts-announce] 20221017 [SECURITY] [DLA 3152-1] glibc security update

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