CVE-2008-4316

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2009-03-12
CWE:
CWE-190
Bugzilla:
474770: CVE-2008-4316 glib2: integer overflows in the base64 handling functions (oCERT-2008-015)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Multiple integer overflows in glib/gbase64.c in GLib before 2.20 allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long string that is converted either (1) from or (2) to a base64 representation.

Find out more about CVE-2008-4316 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (glib2) RHSA-2009:0336 2009-03-24

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