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CVE-2016-10228

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-03-02 · updated 2026-10-14
• Weakness: CWE-20

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

• GNU C Library (glibc): through 2.25

References

• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/01/10
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96525
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00021.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-20
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19519
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19519#c21
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26224
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/01/10
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96525
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E

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