CVE-2020-29562
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-29562
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-29562.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-29562
- Related
- Published
- 2020-12-04T07:15:11Z
- Modified
- 2025-04-21T14:52:41.213104Z
- Severity
-
- 4.8 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
The iconv function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.30 to 2.32, when converting UCS4 text containing an irreversible character, fails an assertion in the code path and aborts the program, potentially resulting in a denial of service.
- References
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- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-20
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210122-0004/
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26923
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TVCUNLQ3HXGS4VPUQKWTJGRAW2KTFGXS/
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-29562
Affected packages
Debian:11 / glibc
Package
- Name
- glibc
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/glibc?arch=source
Debian:12 / glibc
Package
- Name
- glibc
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/glibc?arch=source
Debian:13 / glibc
Package
- Name
- glibc
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/glibc?arch=source