PT-2018-2888 · Gnome+3 · Gnome Glib+3

Published 2018-04-08 · Updated 2021-06-29 · CVE-2018-16429

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GNOME GLib version 2.56.1

Description The issue is related to an out-of-bounds read in the g markup parse context parse() function, specifically in the utf8 str() method within gmarkup.c. This could potentially allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service.

Recommendations For GNOME GLib version 2.56.1, consider restricting the use of the g markup parse context parse() function until a patch is available. As a temporary workaround, avoid using the utf8 str() method in the affected function to minimize the risk of exploitation. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Out of bounds Read

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-125

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-2170

BDU:2019-02447

CVE-2018-16429

DLA-1866-1

MGASA-2018-0405

OPENSUSE-SU-2018_4005-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10791-1

SUSE-SU-2018:3913-1

SUSE-SU-2018:3966-1

SUSE-SU-2018_3966-1

SUSE-SU-2019:1596-1

SUSE-SU-2019:1722-1

USN-3767-1

USN-3767-2

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Gnome Glib

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 62

• 🔥 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/issues/1361 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DLA-1866-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16429 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:3913-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3767-2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-16429 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-16429 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0405.html · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3767-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wiki.astralinux.ru/astra-linux-se16-bulletin-20200327SE16 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-16429 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-16428 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DLA-1866-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/glib2.0 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3767-1 · Vendor Advisory