CVE-2023-32636

State: Published
Severity: 4.7 Medium
Published: Sep 14, 2023
Updated: Oct 14, 2026
Reserved: May 30, 2023

Description

A flaw was found in glib, where the gvariant deserialization code is vulnerable to a denial of service introduced by additional input validation added to resolve CVE-2023-29499. The offset table validation may be very slow. 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-2023-29499.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	4.7 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	redhat

Weaknesses

CWE-400

Affected Products

Product	Versions
glibglib	2.75.1Affected

References

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/2841
https://https//discourse.gnome.org/t/multiple-fixes-for-gvariant-normalisation-issues-in-glib/12835
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231110-0002/
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html

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