cve-2016-10228
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-03-02 00:00
Modified
2024-08-06 03:14
Severity ?
Summary
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.
Impacted products
n/an/a
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