K52494142 : GNU C Library (glibc) vulnerability CVE-2016-10228

Security Advisory 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. (CVE-2016-10228)

Impact

An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by crafting a sequence of invalid multi-byte input to an application using the iconv program and causing the application to enter an infinite loop, leading to a denial-of-service (DoS).