Vulnerability · Published Sep 14, 2023 · Assigned by redhat
CVE-2023-32636
Medium 4.7
In plain English
A medium-severity uncontrolled resource consumption in glib from glib. 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.
Official description
A flaw was found in glib, where the gvariant deserialization code is vulnerable to a denial of service introduced by additional input validation added to resolve CVE-2023-29499. The offset table validation may be very slow. This bug does not affect any released version of glib but does affect glib distributors who followed the guidance of glib developers to backport the initial fix for CVE-2023-29499.
Affected packages & fixed versions
| Ecosystem | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| AlmaLinux:9 | mingw32-glib2 | 2.78.0-1.el9 | ALSA-2024:2528 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | mingw32-glib2-static | 2.78.0-1.el9 | ALSA-2024:2528 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | mingw64-glib2 | 2.78.0-1.el9 | ALSA-2024:2528 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | mingw64-glib2-static | 2.78.0-1.el9 | ALSA-2024:2528 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | glib2.0 | 2.72.4-0ubuntu2.2 | USN-6165-1 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | glib2.0 | 2.72.4-0ubuntu2.2 | UBUNTU-CVE-2023-32636 |
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-400 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H