ALSA-2023:6631

Vulnerability from osv_almalinux – Published: 2023-11-07 00:00 – Updated: 2023-11-14 12:11 – Source website
VLAI
Summary
Low: glib2 security and bug fix update
Details

GLib provides the core application building blocks for libraries and applications written in C. It provides the core object system used in GNOME, the main loop implementation, and a large set of utility functions for strings and common data structures.

Security Fix(es):

  • glib: GVariant offset table entry size is not checked in is_normal() (CVE-2023-29499)
  • glib: g_variant_byteswap() can take a long time with some non-normal inputs (CVE-2023-32611)
  • glib: GVariant deserialisation does not match spec for non-normal data (CVE-2023-32665)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

References
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  "id": "ALSA-2023:6631",
  "modified": "2023-11-14T12:11:13Z",
  "published": "2023-11-07T00:00:00Z",
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      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-29499"
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      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-32611"
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      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2211827"
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      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2211828"
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      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2211829"
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  "summary": "Low: glib2 security and bug fix update"
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