THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2016-10228
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2016-10228

Glibc vulnerability

CVSS
5.9
EPSS
4.0%
EPSS pct
89th
Exploited
No known
The iconv program in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.31 and earlier, 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.
Affected vendor
Gnu
Affected product
Glibc
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation
Published
2017-03-02

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, high attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.0% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 89% of all scored CVEs.

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  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2016-10228.
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