CVE-2018-16429 (GCVE-0-2018-16429)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-09-04 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 10:24
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
GNOME GLib 2.56.1 has an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in g_markup_parse_context_parse() in gmarkup.c, related to utf8_str().
Severity
7.5 (High)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
7 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/issues/1361 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://usn.ubuntu.com/3767-1/ | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
| https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/commit/cec717… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://usn.ubuntu.com/3767-2/ | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019… | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860… | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294b… | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
Date Public
2018-09-03 00:00
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