#VU50075 Reachable Assertion in Glibc - CVE-2021-3326 

 

#VU50075 Reachable Assertion in Glibc - CVE-2021-3326

Published: January 27, 2021 / Updated: January 28, 2021


Vulnerability identifier: #VU50075
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2021-3326
CWE-ID: CWE-617
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Glibc
Software vendor:
GNU

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a reachable assertion within the iconv function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) when processing invalid input sequences in the ISO-2022-JP-3 encoding. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application, trigger an assertion failure and crash the affected application.


Remediation

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.

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