SB2021051949 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 update for glibc

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SB2021051949 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 update for glibc

Published: May 19, 2021

Security Bulletin ID SB2021051949
CSH Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 5
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 5 vulnerabilities.


1) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-10228)

CWE-ID: CWE-20 - Improper input validation

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear


The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. 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.


2) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-25013)

CWE-ID: CWE-125 - Out-of-bounds read

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear


The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition in GNU C Library within the iconv feature when processing multi-byte input sequences in the EUC-KR encoding. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application, trigger out-of-bounds read error and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


3) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-9169)

CWE-ID: CWE-125 - Out-of-bounds read

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green


The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack or gain access to sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to heap-based buffer over-read via an attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service attack or gain access to sensitive information.


4) Infinite loop (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-27618)

CWE-ID: CWE-835 - Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green


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.


5) Reachable Assertion (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-3326)

CWE-ID: CWE-617 - Reachable Assertion

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green


The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a reachable assertion within the iconv function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) when processing invalid input sequences in the ISO-2022-JP-3 encoding. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application, trigger an assertion failure and crash the affected application.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References