Bug 2156440 (CVE-2019-25085) - CVE-2019-25085 gvdb: use after free issue was fixed in gvdb_table_write_contents_async()
Summary: CVE-2019-25085 gvdb: use after free issue was fixed in gvdb_table_write_cont...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2019-25085
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 2156441 2156442 2156443 2156458 2156459 2156460 2156461
Blocks: 2156323
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2022-12-27 04:24 UTC by Sandipan Roy
Modified: 2023-01-20 12:57 UTC (History)
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A vulnerability was found in GNOME gvdb. This issue affects the gvdb_table_write_contents_async function of the gvdb-builder.c. file. The manipulation leads to a use—after—free vulnerability where it is possible to initiate the attack remotely.
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Last Closed: 2023-01-07 05:30:37 UTC
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Description Sandipan Roy 2022-12-27 04:24:59 UTC 
A vulnerability was found in GNOME gvdb. It has been classified as critical. This affects the function gvdb_table_write_contents_async of the file gvdb-builder.c. The manipulation leads to use after free. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The name of the patch is d83587b2a364eb9a9a53be7e6a708074e252de14. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier VDB-216789 was assigned to this vulnerability.

https://vuldb.com/?id.216789
https://github.com/GNOME/gvdb/commit/d83587b2a364eb9a9a53be7e6a708074e252de14
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.216789
Comment 2 Sandipan Roy 2022-12-27 04:27:21 UTC 
Created epiphany tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-36 [bug 2156441]


Created glib2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-36 [bug 2156442]
Affects: fedora-37 [bug 2156443]
Comment 5 Michael Catanzaro 2022-12-27 14:32:02 UTC 
Note this vulnerability was only present in gvdb for six days, and no version of glib or dconf is affected, so users don't need to worry about this. I believe Epiphany is the only software that was actually impacted (and it was fixed there before it made its way into any release).
Comment 6 Product Security DevOps Team 2023-01-07 05:30:35 UTC 
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-25085
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