Bug 2211827 (CVE-2023-32665)

Summary:	CVE-2023-32665 glib: GVariant deserialisation does not match spec for non-normal data
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Dhananjay Arunesh <darunesh>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Nobody <nobody>
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Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	mcatanza, mdean, rh-spice-bugs, virt-maint, walters
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	A flaw was found in GLib. GVariant deserialization is vulnerable to an exponential blowup issue where a crafted GVariant can cause excessive processing, leading to denial of service.	Story Points:	---
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Bug Depends On:	2212688, 2212689, 2212690, 2212691, 2212692, 2212693, 2212694, 2212695, 2212696, 2212697
Bug Blocks:	2160453

Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2023-06-02 07:13:36 UTC

GLib's GVariant deserialization prior to GLib 2.74.4 is vulnerable to an exponential blowup issue where a crafted GVariant can cause excessive processing, leading to denial of service.

References:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/2121

Comment 2 Dhananjay Arunesh 2023-06-06 07:20:19 UTC

Created glib tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 2212688]


Created glib2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-37 [bug 2212690]
Affects: fedora-38 [bug 2212696]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 2212689]


Created mingw-glib2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-37 [bug 2212693]
Affects: fedora-38 [bug 2212697]

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2023-11-07 08:22:09 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2023:6631 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6631

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2024-04-30 11:02:42 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2024:2528 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2528