QID 355458

Date Published: 2023-06-29

QID 355458: Amazon Linux Security Advisory for glib2 : ALAS2023-2023-225

The upstream bug report describes this issue as follows: a vulnerability was found in glib2.0, where dos caused by handling a malicious text-form variant which is structured to cause looping superlinear to its text size.
Applications are at risk if they parse untrusted text-form variants. (
( CVE-2023-24593) the upstream bug report describes this issue as follows: a vulnerability was found in glib2.0, where dos caused by handling a malicious text-form variant which is structured to cause looping superlinear to its text size.
( CVE-2023-25180) glib's gvariant deserialization prior to glib 2.74.4 failed to validate the input conforms to the expected format, leading to denial of service. (
( CVE-2023-29499) glib's gvariant deserialization prior to glib 2.74.4 is vulnerable to a slowdown issue where a crafted gvariant can cause excessive processing, leading to denial of service. (
( CVE-2023-32611) glib's gvariant deserialization prior to glib 2.74.4 is vulnerable to an exponential blowup issue where a crafted gvariant can cause excessive processing, leading to denial of service. (
( CVE-2023-32665)



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Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to a securitybreach or could affect integrity, availability, and confidentiality.

  • CVSS V3 rated as Critical - 8.6 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 5.4 severity.
    • Solution
    Please refer to Amazon advisory: ALAS2023-2023-225 for affected packages and patching details, or update with your package manager.
    Vendor References

    CVEs related to QID 355458

    CVE-2023-32611 | CVE-2023-25180 | CVE-2023-32665 | CVE-2023-24593 | CVE-2023-29499 |
    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    ALAS2023-2023-225 amazon linux 2023 URL Logo alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2023/ALAS-2023-225.html
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