Bug#856503: glibc: CVE-2016-10228: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte sequences

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>]

Source: glibc
Version: 2.19-18
Severity: important
Tags: upstream security
Forwarded: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19519

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for glibc.

CVE-2016-10228[0]:
glibc iconv program can hang when invoked with the -c option

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-2016-10228
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-10228
[1] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19519

Regards,
Salvatore