CVE-2023-32665

medium

Description

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

References

Advisories
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2211827

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-32665

https://github.com/OSS-SASM/RhsaCveScanner

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240426-0006/

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

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

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/2121

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2023-36908

https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-09-14

Updated: 2026-10-15

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

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