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Vulnerability · Published Nov 11, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2024-52533

Critical 9.8

In plain English

A critical-severity buffer overflow in the glib2 package (AlmaLinux). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.5% (higher than 75% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)9.8Critical
Exploit odds (30 days)1.5%top 25.5% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

gio/gsocks4aproxy.c in GNOME GLib before 2.82.1 has an off-by-one error and resultant buffer overflow because SOCKS4_CONN_MSG_LEN is not sufficient for a trailing '\0' character.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux:8glib22.56.4-166.el8_10ALSA-2025:11327
AlmaLinux:9glib22.68.4-16.el9_6.2ALSA-2025:11140
AlmaLinux:8glib2-devel2.56.4-166.el8_10ALSA-2025:11327
AlmaLinux:9glib2-devel2.68.4-16.el9_6.2ALSA-2025:11140
AlmaLinux:8glib2-doc2.56.4-166.el8_10ALSA-2025:11327
AlmaLinux:9glib2-doc2.68.4-16.el9_6.2ALSA-2025:11140
AlmaLinux:8glib2-fam2.56.4-166.el8_10ALSA-2025:11327
AlmaLinux:8glib2-static2.56.4-166.el8_10ALSA-2025:11327
AlmaLinux:9glib2-static2.68.4-16.el9_6.2ALSA-2025:11140
AlmaLinux:8glib2-tests2.56.4-166.el8_10ALSA-2025:11327
AlmaLinux:9glib2-tests2.68.4-16.el9_6.2ALSA-2025:11140
AlmaLinux:9mingw32-glib22.78.6-2.el9ALSA-2025:0936
AlmaLinux:9mingw32-glib2-static2.78.6-2.el9ALSA-2025:0936
AlmaLinux:9mingw64-glib22.78.6-2.el9ALSA-2025:0936
AlmaLinux:9mingw64-glib2-static2.78.6-2.el9ALSA-2025:0936
Debian:12glib2.02.74.6-2+deb12u5DEBIAN-CVE-2024-52533
Debian:13glib2.02.82.1-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-52533
Debian:14glib2.02.82.1-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-52533
Rocky Linux:10glib20:2.80.4-4.el10_0.6RLSA-2025:10855
Rocky Linux:8glib20:2.56.4-166.el8_10RLSA-2025:11327
Rocky Linux:9glib20:2.68.4-16.el9_6.2RLSA-2025:11140
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSglib2.02.72.4-0ubuntu2.4USN-7114-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSglib2.02.72.4-0ubuntu2.4UBUNTU-CVE-2024-52533
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSglib2.02.80.0-6ubuntu3.2UBUNTU-CVE-2024-52533
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSglib2.02.80.0-6ubuntu3.2USN-7114-1

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a n/a n/a

Weakness: CWE-120 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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