Off-by-one Error Affecting glib2-devel package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-GLIB2DEVEL-8380979
  • published 14 Nov 2024
  • disclosed 11 Nov 2024

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 glib2-devel.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glib2-devel package and not the glib2-devel package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

gio/gsocks4aproxy.c in GNOME GLib before 2.82.1 has an off-by-one error and resultant buffer overflow because SOCKS4_CONN_MSG_LEN is not sufficient for a trailing '\0' character.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Red Hat

7 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    High
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SUSE

7.1 high