Medium severity4.7NVD Advisory· Published Sep 14, 2023· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2023-32636
CVE-2023-32636
Description
A flaw was found in glib, where the gvariant deserialization code is vulnerable to a denial of service introduced by additional input validation added to resolve CVE-2023-29499. The offset table validation may be very slow. This bug does not affect any released version of glib but does affect glib distributors who followed the guidance of glib developers to backport the initial fix for CVE-2023-29499.
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Affected products
11cpe:2.3:a:gnome:glib:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:gnome:glib:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <2.74.4
- (no CPE)
- osv-coords8 versionspkg:rpm/almalinux/mingw32-glib2-staticpkg:rpm/almalinux/mingw64-glib2pkg:rpm/almalinux/mingw32-glib2pkg:rpm/almalinux/mingw64-glib2-staticpkg:rpm/suse/glib2&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP1-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/glib2&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/glib2&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%206pkg:rpm/suse/glib2&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP1-LTSS
< 2.78.0-1.el9+ 7 more
- (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
Patches
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References
3- gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/2841nvdIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
- security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231110-0002/nvdThird Party Advisory
- https//discourse.gnome.org/t/multiple-fixes-for-gvariant-normalisation-issues-in-glib/12835nvdBroken Link
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