CVE-2020-29562: Fedoraproject Fedora

Medium severity, CVSS 4.8. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The iconv function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.30 to 2.32, when converting UCS4 text containing an irreversible character, fails an assertion in the code path and aborts the program, potentially resulting in a denial of service.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 32 only
• GNU Glibc: from 2.30, up to and including 2.32
• Netapp E-Series Santricity OS Controller: from 11.0.0, up to and including 11.60.3

Published 2020-12-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.