Advisories » MGASA-2021-0289

Updated glibc packages fix a security vulnerability

Publication date: 28 Jun 2021
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2016-10228

Description

A vulnerability was found in the iconv program provided by glibc when it's
invoked with the -c option. It can enter an infinite loop while parsing an
invalid multi-byte sequence (CVE-2016-10228).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28942
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1585
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-10228

SRPMS

7/core

• glibc-2.29-23.mga7