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* [PATCH] NEWS: Mention CVE-2021-3326 (iconv assertion with ISO-20220-JP-3)
@ 2021-01-29 16:32 Florian Weimer
  2021-01-29 16:38 ` Paul Zimmermann
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Florian Weimer @ 2021-01-29 16:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: libc-alpha

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 NEWS | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 6521a4f5b7..01cbf282c3 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 from the
+  qISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
+  This assertion wis 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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