Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting glib package, versions [,2.16.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (40th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GLIB-2382562
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed14 Mar 2009
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Mar 2009

CVE-2008-4316  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-189  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade glib to version 2.16.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). Multiple integer overflows in glib/gbase64.c in GLib before 2.20 allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long string that is converted either (1) from or (2) to a base64 representation.

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