CVE-2021-43396

glibc: conversion from ISO-2022-JP-3 with iconv may emit spurious NUL character on state reset

Published Nov 4, 2021 CVSS 3.1 · 7.5 High EPSS 3.3% KEV · Not listed
Description
In iconvdata/iso-2022-jp-3.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc) 2.34, remote attackers can force iconv() to emit a spurious '\0' character via crafted ISO-2022-JP-3 data that is accompanied by an internal state reset. This may affect data integrity in certain iconv() use cases. NOTE: the vendor states "the bug cannot be invoked through user input and requires iconv to be invoked with a NULL inbuf, which ought to require a separate application bug to do so unintentionally. Hence there's no security impact to the bug.

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