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glibc — security advisory
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.
- Products
- glibc
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2.31-3
- CVEs
- CVE-2016-10228
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 30 Oct 2026, 12:13 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10228
glibc
Fixed versions: 2.31-3
glibc
Fixed versions: 2.31-3
glibc
Fixed versions: 2.31-3
Complete source record
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