Vulnerability CVE-2018-16429
Published: 2018-09-03   Modified: 2018-09-04

Description:
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().

Type:

CWE-125

 (Out-of-bounds Read)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Gnome -> GLIB 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 

 References:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/commit/cec71705406f0b2790422f0c1aa0ff3b4b464b1b
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/issues/1361
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/07/msg00029.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3767-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3767-2/
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