Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting glib package, versions [,2.86.3)[2.87.0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GLIB-14401354
  • published12 Dec 2025
  • disclosed11 Dec 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Dec 2025

NewCVE-2025-14512  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Integer Overflow or Wraparound via the escape_byte_string() function. An attacker can cause a heap buffer overflow and application crash by supplying specially crafted file or remote filesystem attribute values.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1