Glib
CVE-2023-32611
MEDIUM
Severity by source
AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Primary rating from NVD · only source for this CVE.
CVSS VectorNVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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1DescriptionNVD
A flaw was found in GLib. GVariant deserialization is vulnerable to a slowdown issue where a crafted GVariant can cause excessive processing, leading to denial of service.
AnalysisAI
A flaw was found in GLib. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
Technical ContextAI
This vulnerability is classified as Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400), which allows attackers to cause denial of service by exhausting system resources. A flaw was found in GLib. GVariant deserialization is vulnerable to a slowdown issue where a crafted GVariant can cause excessive processing, leading to denial of service. Affected products include: Gnome Glib.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Implement rate limiting, set resource quotas, validate input sizes, use timeouts.
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In GNOME GLib 2.56.1, g_markup_parse_context_end_parse() in gmarkup.c has a NULL pointer dereference. Rated critical sev
GNOME GLib before 2.65.3 has an integer overflow, that might lead to an out-of-bounds write, in g_option_group_add_entri
Heap-based buffer overflow in GLib's g_escape_uri_string() function allows local attackers to achieve high-integrity and
An issue was discovered in GNOME GLib before 2.66.6 and 2.67.x before 2.67.3. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulne
GNOME GLib 2.56.1 has an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in g_markup_parse_context_parse() in gmarkup.c, related to utf
GSocketClient in GNOME GLib through 2.62.4 may occasionally connect directly to a target address instead of connecting v
Heap corruption in GLib (GNOME's core C utility library) lets remote attackers trigger a buffer-underflow in the GVarian
file_copy_fallback in gio/gfile.c in GNOME GLib 2.15.0 through 2.61.1 does not properly restrict file permissions while
An issue was discovered in GNOME GLib before 2.66.8. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.3), this vulnerability is remotely ex
An issue was discovered in GNOME GLib before 2.78.5, and 2.79.x and 2.80.x before 2.80.1. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.
Denial of service in GNOME GLib (versions before 2.88.1) arises when g_dbus_node_info_new_for_xml() parses malformed D-B
Same weakness CWE-400 – Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
View allSame technique Deserialization
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