#VU50329 Out-of-bounds read in Glibc - CVE-2019-25013

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#VU50329 Out-of-bounds read in Glibc - CVE-2019-25013

Published: January 4, 2021 / Updated: February 4, 2021


Vulnerability identifier: #VU50329
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: 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
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-25013
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Glibc
Software vendor:
GNU

Description

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.


Remediation

Install updates from vendor's website.

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