Out-of-bounds Write Affecting glib package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (21st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-GLIB-15126632
  • published29 Jan 2026
  • disclosed27 Jan 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Jan 2026

CVE-2026-1489  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write via the real_tolower and output_marks functions. An attacker can cause memory corruption and potentially crash or destabilize applications by submitting specially crafted and extremely large Unicode strings.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1