CVE-2018-16429 — Out-of-bounds Read in Glib

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read14 documents8 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
OSV9.8
EPSS
0.4%
top 42.44%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Canonical Ubuntu LinuxGnome Glib
Timeline
PublishedSep 4
Latest updateMay 13

Description

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().

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages1 packages

▶NVDgnome/glib2.56.1

Also affects: Ubuntu Linux 12.04, 14.04, 16.04, 18.04

Patches

Patch: gitlab.gnome.org ↗Patch: gitlab.gnome.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
GHSA-x96r-v34q-q4vv: GNOME GLib 2↗2022-05-13
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OSV
glib2.0 vulnerabilities↗2018-09-19
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OSV
CVE-2018-16429: GNOME GLib 2↗2018-09-04
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CVEList
CVE-2018-16429: GNOME GLib 2↗2018-09-04
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📋Vendor Advisories

4
Ubuntu
GLib vulnerabilities↗2018-09-19
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Ubuntu
GLib vulnerabilities↗2018-09-19
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Red Hat
glib2: Out-of-bounds read in g_markup_parse_context_parse() in gmarkup.c↗2018-09-04
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Debian
CVE-2018-16429: glib2.0 - GNOME GLib 2.56.1 has an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in g_markup_parse_cont...↗2018
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💬Community

5
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-16429 thunderbird: glib2: Out-of-bounds read in g_markup_parse_context_parse() in gmarkup.c [fedora-all]↗2018-09-06
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-16429 glib2: Out-of-bounds read in g_markup_parse_context_parse() in gmarkup.c [fedora-all]↗2018-09-06
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-16429 firefox: glib2: Out-of-bounds read in g_markup_parse_context_parse() in gmarkup.c [fedora-all]↗2018-09-06
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-16429 chromium: glib2: Out-of-bounds read in g_markup_parse_context_parse() in gmarkup.c [fedora-all]↗2018-09-06
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-16429 glib2: Out-of-bounds read in g_markup_parse_context_parse() in gmarkup.c↗2018-09-06
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