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CVE-2024-2961

Published: 17 April 2024

The iconv() function in the GNU C Library versions 2.39 and older may overflow the output buffer passed to it by up to 4 bytes when converting strings to the ISO-2022-CN-EXT character set, which may be used to crash an application or overwrite a neighbouring variable.

Notes

AuthorNote
leosilva
introduced in 755104edc (v2.1.94)

Priority

Medium

Status

Package Release Status
eglibc
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
focal Does not exist

jammy Does not exist

mantic Does not exist

noble Does not exist

trusty
Released (2.19-0ubuntu6.15+esm3)
Available with Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
upstream Needs triage

glibc
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic
Released (2.27-3ubuntu1.6+esm2)
Available with Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
focal
Released (2.31-0ubuntu9.15)
jammy
Released (2.35-0ubuntu3.7)
mantic
Released (2.38-1ubuntu6.2)
noble
Released (2.39-0ubuntu8.1)
upstream Needs triage

xenial
Released (2.23-0ubuntu11.3+esm6)
Available with Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
Patches:
upstream: https://sourceware.org/git?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=f9dc609e06b1136bb0408be9605ce7973a767ada