Bug 2429896 - CVE-2026-0988 glib2: GLib: Denial of Service via Integer Overflow in g_buffered_input_stream_peek() [fedora-42]
Summary: CVE-2026-0988 glib2: GLib: Denial of Service via Integer Overflow in g_buffer...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: glib2
Version: 42
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Matthias Clasen
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: CVE-2026-0988
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Reported: 2026-01-15 11:37 UTC by Abhishek Raj
Modified: 2026-03-19 09:43 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2026-03-19 09:43:43 UTC
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GNOME Gitlab GNOME glib issues 3851 0 None closed (CVE-2026-0988) Integer overflow in `g_buffered_input_stream_peek()` leads to segmentation fault 2026-03-19 09:43:43 UTC

Description Abhishek Raj 2026-01-15 11:37:31 UTC 
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Comment 1 Milan Crha 2026-03-19 09:43:43 UTC 
An upstream fix landed for 2.87.1 according to https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/3851 , but I defer to backport it to f42 due to it reaching its end of life soon.
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