[PATCH v2] NEWS: Mention CVE-2021-3326 (iconv assertion with ISO-20220-JP-3)

Adhemerval Zanella adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org
Fri Jan 29 16:54:28 GMT 2021


Ok for 2.33.

On 29/01/2021 13:41, Florian Weimer via Libc-alpha wrote:
> ---
> v2: fix the typos Paul Zimmermann reported
> 
>  NEWS | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index 6521a4f5b7..0d589f9f6e 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -102,6 +102,12 @@ Changes to build and runtime requirements:
>  
>  Security related changes:
>  
> +  CVE-2021-3326: An assertion failure during conversion from the
> +  qISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
> +  This assertion was triggered by certain valid inputs in which the
> +  converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
> +  crossing a buffer boundary.  Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
> +
>    CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
>    invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
>    IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
> 


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