CVE-2020-29562

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-29562
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-29562.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-29562
Downstream
Related
Published
2020-12-04T07:15:11.003Z
Modified
2026-04-16T00:03:52.695792424Z
Severity
  • 4.8 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The iconv function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.30 to 2.32, when converting UCS4 text containing an irreversible character, fails an assertion in the code path and aborts the program, potentially resulting in a denial of service.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:netapp:e-series_santricity_os_controller:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "11.0.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "11.60.3"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_FIELD"
        },
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "32"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_FIELD"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / sourceware.org/git/glibc.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://sourceware.org/git/glibc.git
Events
Introduced
0a8262a1b269f8f1602933248e69dfb041aab7a2
Last affected
3de512be7ea6053255afed6154db9ee31d4e557a
Database specific 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "2.30"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.32"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_FIELD"
}

Affected versions

Other
changelog-ends-here
glibc-2.*
glibc-2.30
glibc-2.30.9000
glibc-2.31
glibc-2.31.9000
glibc-2.32

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-29562.json"