Medium severity5.9NVD Advisory· Published Mar 2, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2016-10228
CVE-2016-10228
Description
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.
Affected products
1Patches
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References
9- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/01/10nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cginvdIssue Tracking
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/96525nvd
- lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3Envd
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00021.htmlnvd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-20nvd
- sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cginvd
- sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cginvd
- www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.htmlnvd
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