SB2021041379 - SUSE update for glibc
Published: April 13, 2021
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 3 secuirty vulnerabilities.
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.
2) Reachable Assertion (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-29562)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a reachable assertion when converting UCS4 text containing an irreversible character in the iconv function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6). A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the library, trigger an assertion failure and preform a denial of service attack.
3) Out-of-bounds write (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-29573)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary within the sysdeps/i386/ldbl2mpn.c in the GNU C Library on x86 systems. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application that uses the vulnerable version of glibc and crash it.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.