• Bug#1069191: glibc: GLIBC-SA-2024-0004/CVE-2024-2961: ISO-2022-CN-EXT:

    From Salvatore Bonaccorso@21:1/5 to All on Wed Apr 17 21:10:02 2024
    XPost: linux.debian.maint.glibc

    Source: glibc
    Version: 2.37-17
    Severity: important
    Tags: security upstream
    X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil@debian.org, Debian Security Team <team@security.debian.org>
    Control: found -1 2.37-15
    Control: found -1 2.36-9+deb12u5
    Control: found -1 2.36-9+deb12u4
    Control: found -1 2.36-9
    Control: found -1 2.31-13+deb11u8
    Control: found -1 2.31-13

    Hi,

    The following vulnerability was published for glibc.

    CVE-2024-2961[0]:
    | 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.


    If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
    CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

    For further information see:

    [0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-2961
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-2961
    [1] https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/17/9

    Regards,
    Salvatore

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