Description
A flaw was found in GLib (Gnome Lib). This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause heap corruption, leading to a denial of service or potential code execution via a buffer-underflow in the GVariant parser when processing maliciously crafted input strings.
Affected products
gnome: glib; redhat: enterprise linux
References10
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:15953
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:15969
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:15971
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19148
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19361
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19452
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19457
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19459
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19460
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19523
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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9.8
CRITICAL
Score source: NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS — exploit probability
- 1% percentile: 60 · as of 11 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-190
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