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Vulnerability · Published Sep 14, 2023 · Assigned by redhat

CVE-2023-29499Gvariant offset table entry size is not checked in is_normal()

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity uncontrolled resource consumption in Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux from Fedora. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.8% (higher than 56% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.8%top 43.7% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A flaw was found in GLib. GVariant deserialization fails to validate that the input conforms to the expected format, leading to denial of service.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux:9glib22.68.4-11.el9ALSA-2023:6631
AlmaLinux:9glib2-devel2.68.4-11.el9ALSA-2023:6631
AlmaLinux:9glib2-doc2.68.4-11.el9ALSA-2023:6631
AlmaLinux:9glib2-static2.68.4-11.el9ALSA-2023:6631
AlmaLinux:9glib2-tests2.68.4-11.el9ALSA-2023:6631
AlmaLinux:9mingw32-glib22.78.0-1.el9ALSA-2024:2528
AlmaLinux:9mingw32-glib2-static2.78.0-1.el9ALSA-2024:2528
AlmaLinux:9mingw64-glib22.78.0-1.el9ALSA-2024:2528
AlmaLinux:9mingw64-glib2-static2.78.0-1.el9ALSA-2024:2528
Debian:12glib2.02.74.4-1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-29499
Debian:13glib2.02.74.4-1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-29499
Debian:14glib2.02.74.4-1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-29499
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSglib2.02.72.4-0ubuntu2.2USN-6165-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSglib2.02.72.4-0ubuntu2.2UBUNTU-CVE-2023-29499

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a glib2 see references
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 see references
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 see references
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 see references
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 see references
Fedora Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux see references
Fedora Fedora 37 see references
Fedora Fedora 38 see references
Fedora Fedora 38 see references
Fedora Fedora 37 see references

Weakness: CWE-400 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References