FKIE_CVE-2023-29499

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2023-09-14 20:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 05:50
Severity
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
A flaw was found in GLib. GVariant deserialization fails to validate that the input conforms to the expected format, leading to denial of service.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-29499Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2211828Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/2794Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00030.html
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202311-18
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231103-0001/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-29499Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2211828Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/2794Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00030.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202311-18
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231103-0001/
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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