Out-of-bounds Read Affecting glib2.0 package, versions <2.50.3-2+deb9u1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.53% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-GLIB20-300087
  • published25 Sept 2018
  • disclosed4 Sept 2018

Introduced: 4 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-16429  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 glib2.0 to version 2.50.3-2+deb9u1 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:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

GNOME GLib 2.56.1 has an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in g_markup_parse_context_parse() in gmarkup.c, related to utf8_str().