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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 14, 2023· Updated Dec 18, 2025

Gvariant offset table entry size is not checked in is_normal()

CVE-2023-29499

Description

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

Affected products

20

Red Hat/Enterprise Linuxcpe-rescue4 versions
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6+ 3 more
- cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
- cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
- cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
- cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
osv-coords13 versions
pkg:rpm/almalinux/glib2 pkg:rpm/almalinux/glib2-devel pkg:rpm/almalinux/glib2-doc pkg:rpm/almalinux/glib2-static pkg:rpm/almalinux/glib2-tests pkg:rpm/almalinux/mingw32-glib2 pkg:rpm/almalinux/mingw32-glib2-static pkg:rpm/almalinux/mingw64-glib2 pkg:rpm/almalinux/mingw64-glib2-static pkg:rpm/suse/glib2&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%206 pkg:rpm/suse/glib2&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP1-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/glib2&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP1-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/glib2&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP1
< 2.68.4-11.el9+ 12 more
- (no CPE)range: < 2.68.4-11.el9
- (no CPE)range: < 2.68.4-11.el9
- (no CPE)range: < 2.68.4-11.el9
- (no CPE)range: < 2.68.4-11.el9
- (no CPE)range: < 2.68.4-11.el9
- (no CPE)range: < 2.78.0-1.el9
- (no CPE)range: < 2.78.0-1.el9
- (no CPE)range: < 2.78.0-1.el9
- (no CPE)range: < 2.78.0-1.el9
- (no CPE)range: < 2.54.3-150000.4.29.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.54.3-150000.4.29.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.54.3-150000.4.29.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.54.3-150000.4.29.1
Fedora/Extra Packages for Enterprise Linuxv5
Fedora/Fedora 37v5
Fedora/Fedora 38v5

Patches

0

No patches discovered yet.

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References

6

access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-29499mitrevdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgimitreissue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/2794mitre
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00030.htmlmitre
security.gentoo.org/glsa/202311-18mitre
security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231103-0001/mitre

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