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HistoryNov 07, 2023 - 6:10 a.m.

(RHSA-2023:6631) Low: glib2 security and bug fix update

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rhsa-2023-6631
glib2
security
bug fix
update
gnome
cve-2023-29499
cve-2023-32611
cve-2023-32665
red hat enterprise linux 9.3

6.6 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

41.9%

GLib provides the core application building blocks for libraries and applications written in C. It provides the core object system used in GNOME, the main loop implementation, and a large set of utility functions for strings and common data structures.

Security Fix(es):

  • glib: GVariant offset table entry size is not checked in is_normal() (CVE-2023-29499)

  • glib: g_variant_byteswap() can take a long time with some non-normal inputs (CVE-2023-32611)

  • glib: GVariant deserialisation does not match spec for non-normal data (CVE-2023-32665)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.