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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-14512

medium Nessus Plugin ID 278352

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Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

 - A flaw was found in glib. This vulnerability allows a heap buffer overflow and denial-of-service (DoS) via an integer overflow in GLib's GIO (GLib Input/Output) escape_byte_string() function when processing malicious file or remote filesystem attribute values. (CVE-2025-14512)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2025-14512

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-14512

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-14512

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 278352

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2025_14512.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 12/11/2025

Updated: 12/16/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-14512

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:U/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glib2-doc, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mingw64-glib2-static, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:glib2.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glib2-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glib2-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glib2, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:12.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw32-glib2-static, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glib2-tests, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.10, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glib2-static, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw64-glib2, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mingw32-glib2, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glib2-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glib2-fam, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw32-glib2, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:13.0, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glib2, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mingw64-glib2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw-glib2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:glib2.0, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.04, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mingw32-glib2-static, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glib2-static, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glib2-fam, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mingw-glib2, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glib2-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw64-glib2-static

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/local_checks_enabled, global_settings/vendor_unpatched, Host/OS/identifier

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/11/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-14512