SB2021020709 - Denial of service in GNU Glibc
Published: February 7, 2021
Security Bulletin ID
SB2021020709
Severity
Medium
Patch available
NO
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Infinite loop (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-27618)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to infinite loop within iconv implementation when processing multi-byte input sequences in IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, IBM1399 encodings. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application, consume all available system resources and cause denial of service conditions.
Remediation
Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.