CVE-2023-29499 (GCVE-0-2023-29499)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-09-14 19:06 – Updated: 2025-12-18 15:23
VLAI
Title
Gvariant offset table entry size is not checked in is_normal()
Summary
A flaw was found in GLib. GVariant deserialization fails to validate that the input conforms to the expected format, leading to denial of service.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Date Public
2022-12-14 00:00
Credits
Upstream acknowledges William Manley as the original reporter.
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