Bug#976391: glibc: CVE-2020-29562

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>]

Source: glibc
Version: 2.31-5
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26923
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil@debian.org, Debian Security Team <team@security.debian.org>
Control: found -1 2.31-4

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for glibc.

CVE-2020-29562[0]:
| 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.


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-2020-29562
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-29562
[1] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26923

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore