{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-10228 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2016-10228 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Gnu Glibc, published on 2 Mar 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2016-10228 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2016-10228 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Gnu Glibc, published on 2 Mar 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-10228 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Gnu Glibc. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-10228/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-10228/index.md)","id":"CVE-2016-10228","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-10228/index.md","name":"CVE-2016-10228","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10228","GHSA-g93f-3wq3-pq68","MGASA-2021-0289","SUSE-SU-2021:3830-1","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10228","openSUSE-SU-2021:1560-1"],"analysis":{"component_type":"operating_system","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"GNU C Library","requires_auth":"none","summary":"The iconv program in glibc enters an infinite loop when processing invalid multi-byte input with specific options, causing a denial of 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n/a","id":"CVE-2005-3590","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2019-04-10"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-18269","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2018-05-18"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Integer overflow in n/a","id":"CVE-2018-11236","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2018-05-18"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"SUSE","prefix":"SUSE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"SUSE","prefix":"openSUSE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-14","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"The iconv program in glibc enters an infinite loop when processing invalid multi-byte input with specific options, causing a denial of service.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-10228/"}