Bug 2181183 - glib: DoS caused by handling a malicious text-form variant
Summary: glib: DoS caused by handling a malicious text-form variant
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 2181187 2181188 2181191 2181192 2181199 2181200 2181201 2181202
Blocks: 2160453
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2023-03-23 09:59 UTC by Dhananjay Arunesh
Modified: 2024-03-26 20:16 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2023-05-29 05:39:05 UTC
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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?
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