Bug#973914: glibc: CVE-2020-27618

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>]

Source: glibc
Version: 2.31-4
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26224
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil@debian.org, Debian Security Team <team@security.debian.org>
Control: found -1 2.28-10

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for glibc.

CVE-2020-27618[0]:
| iconv when processing invalid multi-byte input sequences fails to
| advance the input state, which could result in an infinite loop

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-2020-27618
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-27618
[1] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26224

Regards,
Salvatore