CVE-2020-35457

Summary

CVECVE-2020-35457
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-12-14 23:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:21:00 UTC
Description** DISPUTED ** GNOME GLib before 2.65.3 has an integer overflow, that might lead to an out-of-bounds write, in g_option_group_add_entries. NOTE: the vendor's position is "Realistically this is not a security issue. The standard pattern is for callers to provide a static list of option entries in a fixed number of calls to g_option_group_add_entries()." The researcher states that this pattern is undocumented.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-787 | CWE-190

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnome Glib All All All All
Application Gnome Glib All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
2.65.3 · GNOME / GLib · GitLab MISC gitlab.gnome.org Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
Segfaulting Integer Overflow in g_option_group_add_entries (#2197) · Issues · GNOME / GLib · GitLab MISC gitlab.gnome.org Exploit, Vendor Advisory
goption: Add a precondition to avoid GOptionEntry list overflow (63c5b62f) · Commits · GNOME / GLib · GitLab MISC gitlab.gnome.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 670571 EulerOS Security Update for glib2 (EulerOS-SA-2021-2329)
  • 670615 EulerOS Security Update for glib2 (EulerOS-SA-2021-2373)
  • 670854 EulerOS Security Update for glib2 (EulerOS-SA-2021-2329)
  • 670991 EulerOS Security Update for glib2 (EulerOS-SA-2021-2580)
  • 900103 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for glib 2.58.0
  • 901587 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for glib (6435-1)
  • 903073 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for glib (3681)
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