RHSA-2024:2528 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for mingw-glib2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

GLib provides the core application building blocks for libraries and applications written in C. It provides the core object system used in GNOME, the main loop implementation, and a large set of utility functions for strings and common data structures.

Security Fix(es):

• glib: GVariant offset table entry size is not checked in is_normal() (CVE-2023-29499)
• glib: g_variant_byteswap() can take a long time with some non-normal inputs (CVE-2023-32611)
• glib: Timeout in fuzz_variant_text (CVE-2023-32636)
• glib: GVariant deserialisation does not match spec for non-normal data (CVE-2023-32665)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 9 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.4 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2211827 - CVE-2023-32665 glib: GVariant deserialisation does not match spec for non-normal data
• BZ - 2211828 - CVE-2023-29499 glib: GVariant offset table entry size is not checked in is_normal()
• BZ - 2211829 - CVE-2023-32611 glib: g_variant_byteswap() can take a long time with some non-normal inputs
• BZ - 2211833 - CVE-2023-32636 glib: Timeout in fuzz_variant_text

CVEs

• CVE-2023-29499
• CVE-2023-32611
• CVE-2023-32636
• CVE-2023-32665

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.4_release_notes/index