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Debian 10 Buster: DLA-3152-1 Critical: Glibc Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey October 17, 2022
Dist Debian Esm H88
Essential glibc patch addresses various vulnerabilities, notably denial of service risks. Prompt installation is recommended.
This update fixes a wide range of vulnerabilities

Summary

The iconv program in the GNU C Library 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.

CVE-2019-19126

On the x86-64 architecture, the GNU C Library fails to ignore the
LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC environment variable during program
execution after a security transition, allowing local attackers to
restrict the possible mapping addresses for loaded libraries and
thus bypass ASLR for a setuid program.

CVE-2019-25013

The iconv feature in the GNU C Library, when processing invalid
multi-byte input sequences in the EUC-KR encoding, may have a buffer
over-read.

CVE-2020-10029

The GNU C Library could overflow an on-stack buffer during range
reduction if an input to an 80-bit long double function contains a
non-canonical bit pattern, a seen when passing a

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-------------------------------------------------------------------------Package: glibc
Version: 2.28-10+deb10u2
CVE ID: CVE-2016-10228 CVE-2019-19126 CVE-2019-25013
Debian Bug: 856503 945250 953108 953788 961452 973914 979273 981198

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