Converting crafted BIG-HKSCS input to UCS-4 or the internal wide character encoding, for example with iconv, in the GNU C Library version 2.18 through 2.31 may result in the converter making no progress, causing the calling application to hang.
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First Time appeared The Gnu C Library
The Gnu C Library glibc
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The Gnu C Library glibc

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Description Converting crafted BIG-HKSCS input to UCS-4 or the internal wide character encoding, for example with iconv, in the GNU C Library version 2.18 through 2.31 may result in the converter making no progress, causing the calling application to hang.
Title BIG-HKSCS decoding hang on crafted input
Weaknesses CWE-835
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.9, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: glibc

Published:

Updated: 2026-11-04T17:17:38.321Z

Reserved: 2026-11-04T16:28:03.957Z

Link: CVE-2026-122054

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-11-04T18:17:43.253

Modified: 2026-11-04T18:17:43.253

Link: CVE-2026-122054

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Updated: 2026-11-04T18:45:07Z

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