CVE-2023-32643

Summary

CVECVE-2023-32643
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-09-14 20:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-09-20 14:32:00 UTC
DescriptionA flaw was found in GLib. The GVariant deserialization code is vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow introduced by the fix for CVE-2023-32665. 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-2023-32665.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-787

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnome Glib All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Multiple fixes for GVariant normalisation issues in GLib - Platform - GNOME Discourse MISC https
(CVE-2023-32643) fuzz_variant_binary_byteswap: Heap-buffer-overflow in g_variant_serialised_get_child (#2840) · Issues · GNOME / GLib · GitLab MISC gitlab.gnome.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 199417 Ubuntu Security Notification for GLib Vulnerabilities (USN-6165-1)
  • 199839 Ubuntu Security Notification for GLib Vulnerabilities (USN-6165-2)
  • 284032 Fedora Security Update for mingw (FEDORA-2023-1a7e2b3dda)
  • 284071 Fedora Security Update for mingw (FEDORA-2023-9e5a29a25d)
  • 673279 EulerOS Security Update for glib2 (EulerOS-SA-2023-2612)
  • 673293 EulerOS Security Update for glib2 (EulerOS-SA-2023-2582)
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