** REJECT ** DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: none. Reason: This candidate was withdrawn by its CNA. Further investigation showed that it was not a security issue. Notes: The code maintainer explains that "[the] call is invalid [as] the buffer pointed to by "data" must have "len" valid bytes." The documentation was fixed to make that clear.

Metrics

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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2025-8037 A vulnerability was found in GNOME libgsf up to 1.14.53. It has been classified as critical. This affects the function gsf_base64_encode_simple. The manipulation of the argument size_t leads to heap-based buffer overflow. An attack has to be approached locally. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.
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Solution

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Workaround

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History

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-119
CWE-122
References
Metrics cvssV2_0

{'score': 4.3, 'vector': 'AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P'}

cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 4.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X'}

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 13:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Title GNOME libgsf gsf_base64_encode_simple heap-based overflow
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 12:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description A vulnerability was found in GNOME libgsf up to 1.14.53. It has been classified as critical. This affects the function gsf_base64_encode_simple. The manipulation of the argument size_t leads to heap-based buffer overflow. An attack has to be approached locally. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way. ** REJECT ** DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: none. Reason: This candidate was withdrawn by its CNA. Further investigation showed that it was not a security issue. Notes: The code maintainer explains that "[the] call is invalid [as] the buffer pointed to by "data" must have "len" valid bytes." The documentation was fixed to make that clear.
Metrics cvssV3_0

{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 4.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}

 cvssV4_0

{'score': 4.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X'}

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 14:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 00:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description A vulnerability was found in GNOME libgsf up to 1.14.53. It has been classified as critical. This affects the function gsf_base64_encode_simple. The manipulation of the argument size_t leads to heap-based buffer overflow. An attack has to be approached locally. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.
Title GNOME libgsf gsf_base64_encode_simple heap-based overflow
Weaknesses CWE-119
CWE-122
References
Metrics cvssV2_0

{'score': 4.3, 'vector': 'AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P'}

cvssV3_0

{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L'}

cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 4.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: REJECTED

Assigner: VulDB

Published:

Updated: 2025-04-22T12:25:20.242Z

Reserved: 2025-03-24T12:46:21.132Z

Link: CVE-2025-2721

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated:

cve-icon NVD

Status : Rejected

Published: 2025-03-25T00:15:15.693

Modified: 2025-04-22T13:15:42.990

Link: CVE-2025-2721

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Weaknesses

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