ubuntu-cve-2025-2721
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2025-03-25 00:15
Modified
2025-04-23 15:00
Summary
Details
A vulnerability was found in GNOME libgsf up to 1.14.53. It has been classified as critical. This affects the function gsf_base64_encode_simple. The manipulation of the argument size_t leads to heap-based buffer overflow. An attack has to be approached locally. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
References
| URL | Type | |
|---|---|---|
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"aliases": [],
"details": "A vulnerability was found in GNOME libgsf up to 1.14.53. It has been classified as critical. This affects the function gsf_base64_encode_simple. The manipulation of the argument size_t leads to heap-based buffer overflow. An attack has to be approached locally. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.",
"id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2025-2721",
"modified": "2025-04-23T15:00:39Z",
"published": "2025-03-25T00:15:00Z",
"references": [
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"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-2721"
},
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"type": "REPORT",
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},
{
"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://vuldb.com/?submit.520181"
},
{
"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.300741"
},
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],
"schema_version": "1.6.3",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
],
"withdrawn": "2025-06-23T16:00:08Z"
}
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