CVE-2020-35457
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-12-14 22:25
Modified
2024-08-04 17:02
Severity ?
Summary
GNOME GLib before 2.65.3 has an integer overflow, that might lead to an out-of-bounds write, in g_option_group_add_entries. NOTE: the vendor's position is "Realistically this is not a security issue. The standard pattern is for callers to provide a static list of option entries in a fixed number of calls to g_option_group_add_entries()." The researcher states that this pattern is undocumented
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