Heap-based Buffer Overflow Affecting glib package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.26% (50th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GLIB-14314182
  • published10 Dec 2025
  • disclosed5 Dec 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 5 Dec 2025

CVE-2025-14087  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-122  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for glib.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Heap-based Buffer Overflow via the bytestring_parse() and string_parse() functions on the gvariant-parser.c file. An attacker can cause memory corruption and potentially execute arbitrary code or crash the application by supplying specially crafted input strings.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1