Bug 2181183

Summary:	glib: DoS caused by handling a malicious text-form variant
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Dhananjay Arunesh <darunesh>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	carnil, mcatanza, mdean, rh-spice-bugs, virt-maint, walters
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2023-05-29 05:39:05 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	2181187, 2181188, 2181191, 2181192, 2181199, 2181200, 2181201, 2181202
Bug Blocks:	2160453

Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2023-03-23 09:59:29 UTC

A vulnerability was found in GLib2.0, where DoS caused by handling a malicious text-form variant which is structured to cause looping superlinear to its text size. Applications are at risk if they parse untrusted text-form variants.

References:
https://discourse.gnome.org/t/multiple-fixes-for-gvariant-normalisation-issues-in-glib/12835

Comment 1 Dhananjay Arunesh 2023-03-23 10:01:59 UTC

Created glib tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 2181187]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 2181191]


Created glib2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2181188]


Created mingw-glib2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2181192]

Comment 2 Salvatore Bonaccorso 2023-07-24 07:45:13 UTC

This CVE has been rejected, can you please remove the CVE alias as well?