CVE-2020-35457: 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…

PriorityP337high7.8CVSS 3.1

AVLACLPRLUINSUCHIHAH

EPSS

0.57%

43.2th percentile

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

Affected

4 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	glib2.0	< glib2.0 2.66.0-1 (bookworm)	glib2.0 2.66.0-1 (bookworm)
gnome	glib	< 2.65.3	2.65.3
msrc	cbl2_glib_2.60.1-5_on_cbl_mariner_2.0	—	—
msrc	cm1_glib_2.58.0-7_on_cbl_mariner_1.0	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.17.8HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.04.6MEDIUMAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

osv7.8HIGH

vendor_debian7.8LOW

vendor_msrc7.8HIGH

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