Integer Overflow or Wraparound The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package glib2.0  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-GLIB20-1052933
  • published19 Dec 2020
  • disclosed14 Dec 2020

Introduced: 14 Dec 2020

CVE-2020-35457  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

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 Ubuntu.

GNOME GLib before 2.65.3 has an integer overflow, that might lead to an out-of-bounds write, in g_option_group_add_entries. NOTE: the vendor's position is "Realistically this is not a security issue. The standard pattern is for callers to provide a static list of option entries in a fixed number of calls to g_option_group_add_entries()." The researcher states that this pattern is undocumented