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CVE-2020-27618

5.5 medium SSVC exploitation: none Modified

The iconv function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.32 and earlier, when processing invalid multi-byte input sequences in IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 encodings, fails to advance the input state, which could lead to an infinite loop in applications, resulting in a denial of service, a different vulnerability from CVE-2016-10228.

Fix

Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 4

Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.

Change history 1

  1. First seenCVSS 5.5 · gnu, netapp, oracleNVD modified 2026-10-14 10:17

Affected (CPE criteria) 14

  • cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:netapp:ontap_select_deploy_administration_utility:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:netapp:a250_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:netapp:500f_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h410c_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h300s_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h500s_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h700s_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h300e_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h500e_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h700e_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h410s_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:oracle:communications_cloud_native_core_service_communication_proxy:1.14.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References 16