CVE-2020-27618

NameCVE-2020-27618
DescriptionThe 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-3152-1, ELA-724-1, ELA-725-1
Debian Bugs973914

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
glibc (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)2.19-18+deb8u14fixed
stretch (security)2.24-11+deb9u1vulnerable
stretch (lts), stretch2.24-11+deb9u7fixed
buster (security), buster, buster (lts)2.28-10+deb10u4fixed
bullseye2.31-13+deb11u11fixed
bullseye (security)2.31-13+deb11u10fixed
bookworm2.36-9+deb12u9fixed
bookworm (security)2.36-9+deb12u7fixed
sid, trixie2.40-4fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
glibcsourcejessie2.19-18+deb8u11ELA-725-1
glibcsourcestretch2.24-11+deb9u5ELA-724-1
glibcsourcebuster2.28-10+deb10u2DLA-3152-1
glibcsource(unstable)2.31-5973914

Notes

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26224
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=9a99c682144bdbd40792ebf822fe9264e0376fb5

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