CVE Catalog

CVE-2023-29499

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Elevated risk
0.78%

55th percentile - higher than 55% of all known CVEs

Summary

In GLib, GVariant deserialization fails to validate that the input conforms to the expected format, leading to denial of service. The vulnerability affects processing of untrusted GVariant data.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can supply malicious GVariant data, causing a hang or crash of an application using GLib. This impacts availability of services processing such data.

Recommendation

Update GLib to a version containing the GVariant format validation fix. Avoid processing untrusted GVariant data until the update is applied.

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Original NVD description (English source)

A flaw was found in GLib. GVariant deserialization fails to validate that the input conforms to the expected format, leading to denial of service.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS