RHSA-2026:19523 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for glib2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Update Services for SAP Solutions and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Telecommunications Update Service.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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: GLib: Buffer underflow in GVariant parser leads to heap corruption (CVE-2025-14087)
• glib: Integer Overflow in GLib GIO Attribute Escaping Causes Heap Buffer Overflow (CVE-2025-14512)

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.

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 Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support Extension 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.8 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2419093 - CVE-2025-14087 glib: GLib: Buffer underflow in GVariant parser leads to heap corruption
• BZ - 2421339 - CVE-2025-14512 glib: Integer Overflow in GLib GIO Attribute Escaping Causes Heap Buffer Overflow

CVEs

• CVE-2025-14087
• CVE-2025-14512

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate