Link Following Affecting glib2.0 package, versions <2.66.7-2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.58% (68th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN14-GLIB20-11744192
  • published10 Aug 2025
  • disclosed11 Mar 2021

Introduced: 11 Mar 2021

CVE-2021-28153  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-59  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:14 glib2.0 to version 2.66.7-2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glib2.0 package and not the glib2.0 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:14 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in GNOME GLib before 2.66.8. When g_file_replace() is used with G_FILE_CREATE_REPLACE_DESTINATION to replace a path that is a dangling symlink, it incorrectly also creates the target of the symlink as an empty file, which could conceivably have security relevance if the symlink is attacker-controlled. (If the path is a symlink to a file that already exists, then the contents of that file correctly remain unchanged.)

CVSS Base Scores

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