RHSA-2026:49512 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for mingw-glib2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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: buffer over-read in glib/gvariant-serialiser.c via gvs_tuple_is_normal() (CVE-2026-58010)
• glib: out-of-bounds read in glib/gdatetime.c:g_date_time_get_ymd via invalid GDateTime (CVE-2026-58011)
• glib: buffer over-read in g_regex_replace() via glib/gregex.c:string_append() and g_utf8_next_char() (CVE-2026-58012)
• glib: buffer over-read in glib/giochannel.c via "g_io_channel_read_line_backend" (CVE-2026-58013)
• glib: off-by-one error in glib/gkeyfile.c via "g_key_file_get_locale_string_list" (CVE-2026-58014)
• glib: path traversal in glib/gio/gdbusauthmechanismsha1.c via keyring_lookup_entry and mechanism_client_data_receive (CVE-2026-58015)
• glib: integer underflow in gio/gdbusintrospection.c via "g_dbus_node_info_new_for_xml" (CVE-2026-58016)

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 CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 8 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2419093 - CVE-2025-14087 glib: GLib: Buffer underflow in GVariant parser leads to heap corruption
• BZ - 2492243 - CVE-2026-58010 glib: buffer over-read in glib/gvariant-serialiser.c via gvs_tuple_is_normal()
• BZ - 2492245 - CVE-2026-58011 glib: out-of-bounds read in glib/gdatetime.c:g_date_time_get_ymd via invalid GDateTime
• BZ - 2492247 - CVE-2026-58012 glib: buffer over-read in g_regex_replace() via glib/gregex.c:string_append() and g_utf8_next_char()
• BZ - 2492248 - CVE-2026-58013 glib: buffer over-read in glib/giochannel.c via "g_io_channel_read_line_backend"
• BZ - 2492255 - CVE-2026-58014 glib: off-by-one error in glib/gkeyfile.c via "g_key_file_get_locale_string_list"
• BZ - 2492256 - CVE-2026-58015 glib: path traversal in glib/gio/gdbusauthmechanismsha1.c via keyring_lookup_entry and mechanism_client_data_receive
• BZ - 2492257 - CVE-2026-58016 glib: integer underflow in gio/gdbusintrospection.c via "g_dbus_node_info_new_for_xml"

CVEs

• CVE-2025-14087
• CVE-2026-58010
• CVE-2026-58011
• CVE-2026-58012
• CVE-2026-58013
• CVE-2026-58014
• CVE-2026-58015
• CVE-2026-58016

References

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