Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting glib package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.19% (10th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-GLIB-18189963
  • published22 Jul 2026
  • disclosed12 Jul 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Jul 2026

NewCVE-2026-15588  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (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 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in the gdbusauth process. An attacker can cause excessive memory allocation and CPU consumption by sending an engineered stream of data without line length limitations during authentication, potentially leading to application instability or crashes.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1