OpenCVE

A flaw was found in GLib. GVariant deserialization is vulnerable to an exponential blowup issue where a crafted GVariant can cause excessive processing, leading to denial of service.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Gnome	Glib
Redhat	Enterprise Linux

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:gnome:glib:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Package	CPE	Advisory	Released Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
glib2-0:2.68.4-11.el9	cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9	RHSA-2023:6631	2023-11-07T00:00:00Z
mingw-glib2-0:2.78.0-1.el9	cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::crb	RHSA-2024:2528	2024-04-30T00:00:00Z
glib2-0:2.68.4-11.el9	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9	RHSA-2023:6631	2023-11-07T00:00:00Z

References

Link	Providers
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-32665
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2211827
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/2121
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00030.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-32665
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202311-18
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240426-0006/
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-32665

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2023-09-14T19:03:58.229Z

Updated: 2024-08-02T15:25:36.651Z

Reserved: 2023-05-30T11:48:42.074Z

Link: CVE-2023-32665

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T15:25:36.651Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-09-14T20:15:09.883

Modified: 2024-11-21T08:03:48.437

Link: CVE-2023-32665

Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-32665 - Bugzilla

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