Use of Uninitialized Variable Affecting gnome/libgsf package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GNOMELIBGSF-9574835
  • published31 Mar 2025
  • disclosed24 Mar 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Mar 2025

NewCVE-2025-2720  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-457  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for gnome/libgsf.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use of Uninitialized Variable due to the null terminator which is written based on an unsynchronized size argument, allowing uninitialized heap data to be included in the base64 encoded output.

References

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1