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Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process. A heap-buffer-overflow READ occurs in g_io_channel_read_line_backend() at giochannel.c:1831 when a custom line terminator of length > 1 is set via g_io_channel_set_line_term(). The memcmp call reads line_term_len bytes from nextchar, but the loop condition nextchar < lastchar only guarantees 1 byte is available. When nextchar is within line_term_len - 1 bytes of lastchar, memcmp reads past the GString buffer into ASan redzone / unallocated memory.
This was fixed upstream with the following releases: - 2.88.1 - 2.89.0 Fedora 44 and 45 ship 2.88.3 and 2.89.3 respectively, thus not affected. While Fedora 43 is affected (2.86.5), the CVE is considered low impact in practice. Furthermore, Fedora 43 will EOL on December 9. No fix is planned.