CVE-2023-32611

MEDIUM

GLib < 2.74.2 - Denial of Service via GVariant Deserialization

Title source: llm

Description

A flaw was found in GLib. GVariant deserialization is vulnerable to a slowdown issue where a crafted GVariant can cause excessive processing, leading to denial of service.

References (6)

Core 6

Core References

Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_redhat

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-32611

Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory issue-tracking x_refsource_redhat

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2211829

Vendor Advisory

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/2797

Mailing List

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00030.html

Third Party Advisory

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202311-18

Vendor Advisory

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231027-0005/

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0038

EPSS Percentile 29.7%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-400

Status published

Products (9)

None/glib2

Fedora/Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux

Fedora/Fedora 37

Fedora/Fedora 38

gnome/glib < 2.74.2

Red Hat/Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Red Hat/Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Red Hat/Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Red Hat/Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Published Sep 14, 2023

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026