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Improper Input Validation

CVE-2021-43396

High
7.5/10

Summary

** DISPUTED ** In "iconvdata/iso-2022-jp-3.c" in the GNU C Library (aka glibc) 2.33 through 2.34, remote attackers can force iconv() to emit a spurious '\0' character via crafted ISO-2022-JP-3 data that is accompanied by an internal state reset. This may affect data integrity in certain iconv() use cases. NOTE: the vendor states "the bug cannot be invoked through user input and requires iconv to be invoked with a NULL inbuf, which ought to require a separate application bug to do so unintentionally. Hence there's no security impact to the bug."

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
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CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation

The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published