CVE-2016-10228 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the iconv program within GNU C Library (glibc) versions 2.31 and earlier. Specifically, it allows an attacker to trigger an infinite loop by providing specially crafted multi-byte input sequences when iconv is invoked with multiple destination encoding suffixes and the -c option. This vulnerability has a medium severity CVSS score of 5.9, indicating a high impact on availability with high attack complexity, but no impact on confidentiality or integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 2.25CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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