Out-of-bounds Read Affecting glib2.0 package, versions <2.42.1-1+deb8u2
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.54% (78th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN8-GLIB20-300086
- published 25 Sep 2018
- disclosed 4 Sep 2018
Introduced: 4 Sep 2018
CVE-2018-16429 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:8
glib2.0
to version 2.42.1-1+deb8u2 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glib2.0
package and not the glib2.0
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:8
relevant fixed versions and status.
GNOME GLib 2.56.1 has an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in g_markup_parse_context_parse() in gmarkup.c, related to utf8_str().
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-16429
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/07/msg00029.html
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/commit/cec71705406f0b2790422f0c1aa0ff3b4b464b1b
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/issues/1361
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-16429
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3767-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3767-2/
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E