Bug 2211829 (CVE-2023-32611)

Summary: CVE-2023-32611 glib: g_variant_byteswap() can take a long time with some non-normal inputs
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Dhananjay Arunesh <darunesh>
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A flaw was found in GLib. GVariant deserialization is vulnerable to a slowdown issue where a crafted GVariant can cause excessive processing, leading to denial of service.
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Bug Depends On: 2212708, 2212709, 2212710, 2212711, 2212712, 2212713, 2212714, 2212715, 2212716    
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Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2023-06-02 07:20:07 UTC
GLib's GVariant deserialization prior to GLib 2.74.4 is vulnerable to a slowdown issue where a crafted GVariant can cause excessive processing, leading to denial of service.

References:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/2797

Comment 1 Dhananjay Arunesh 2023-06-06 07:22:38 UTC
Created glib tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 2212708]


Created glib2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-37 [bug 2212709]
Affects: fedora-38 [bug 2212711]


Created mingw-glib2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-37 [bug 2212710]
Affects: fedora-38 [bug 2212712]

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2023-11-07 08:22:14 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 9 errata-xmlrpc 2024-04-30 11:02:46 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