PT-2020-6936 · Glib+7 · Glib+7

Dhananjay Arunesh · Published 2020-06-01 · Updated 2025-10-19 · CVE-2023-32665

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GLib (affected versions not specified)

Description A flaw was found in GLib where GVariant deserialization is vulnerable to an exponential blowup issue. This issue can cause excessive processing when a crafted GVariant is deserialized, leading to denial of service. The vulnerability is related to the restoration of invalid data in memory, which can be exploited to cause a service disruption.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-502

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

ALSA-2023:6631

ALSA-2024:2528

AZL-28776

BDU:2023-07655

CVE-2023-32665

DLA-3583-1

INFSA-2024_2528

JLSEC-2025-164

RHSA-2023:6631

RHSA-2023_6631

RHSA-2024:2528

RHSA-2024_2528

ROSA-SA-2025-2602

SUSE-SU-2023:3535-1

USN-6165-1

USN-6165-2

Affected Products

Almalinux

Astra Linux

Glib

Linuxmint

Red Hat

Red Os

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 75

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-32643 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/AZL-28776 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-32665 · Vendor Advisory
• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/2121 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-25180 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6165-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DLA-3583-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-6165-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-29499 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-32665 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2023-07655 · Security Note
• https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2023-6631.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALSA-2024:2528 · Vendor Advisory
• http://repo.red-soft.ru/redos/7.3c/x86_64/updates · Vendor Advisory
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2024-2528.html · Vendor Advisory