CVE-2018-16429

HIGH

Gnome Glib - Out-of-Bounds Read

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

GNOME GLib 2.56.1 has an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in g_markup_parse_context_parse() in gmarkup.c, related to utf8_str().

References (7)

Core 7
Core References
Exploit, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/issues/1361
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3767-1/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3767-2/
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/07/msg00029.html

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0035
EPSS Percentile 57.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-125
Status published
Products (5)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 12.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 14.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 16.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.04
gnome/glib 2.56.1
Published Sep 04, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026