Debian: DSA-5673-1: glibc Security Advisory Updates

Charles Fol discovered that the iconv() function in the GNU C library is prone to a buffer overflow vulnerability when converting strings to the ISO-2022-CN-EXT character set, which may lead to denial of service (application crash) or the execution of arbitrary code.

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