PT-2022-7121 · Glib+7 · Glib+7

Dhananjay Arunesh · Published 2022-10-27 · Updated 2025-10-19 · CVE-2023-32611

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 a slowdown issue. A crafted GVariant can cause excessive processing, leading to denial of service. The issue is related to uncontrolled resource consumption, 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

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

ALSA-2023:6631

ALSA-2024:2528

AZL-28774

BDU:2023-07650

CVE-2023-32611

DLA-3583-1

INFSA-2024_2528

JLSEC-2025-161

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 · 71

• https://wiki.astralinux.ru/astra-linux-se47-bulletin-2024-0416SE47 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-32611 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-32636 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-6165-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wiki.astralinux.ru/astra-linux-se17-bulletin-2023-1023SE17 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/JLSEC-2025-161 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-29499 · Vendor Advisory
• https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2024-2528.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2023-07650 · Security Note
• 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
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-32611 · Vendor Advisory
• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/2797 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/AZL-28774 · Vendor Advisory