PT-2022-7120 · Glib+7 · Glib+7

Dhananjay Arunesh · Published 2022-10-26 · Updated 2025-10-19 · CVE-2023-29499

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 GLib (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to the GVariant deserialization in GLib, which fails to validate that the input conforms to the expected format. This can lead to a denial of service. The problem is also associated with the is normal() function and uncontrolled resource consumption.

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

DoS

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

ALSA-2023:6631

ALSA-2024:2528

AZL-28775

BDU:2023-07646

CVE-2023-29499

DLA-3583-1

INFSA-2024_2528

JLSEC-2025-160

RHSA-2023:6631

RHSA-2023_6631

RHSA-2024:2528

RHSA-2024_2528

ROSA-SA-2025-2598

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 · 74

• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-29499 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/JLSEC-2025-160 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2023-29499 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/AZL-28775 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wiki.astralinux.ru/astra-linux-se47-bulletin-2024-0416SE47 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-32636 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-29499 · Security Note
• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/2794 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-6165-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wiki.astralinux.ru/astra-linux-se17-bulletin-2023-1023SE17 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-29499 · Vendor Advisory
• https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2024-2528.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6165-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2023:3535-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-32611 · Vendor Advisory