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CentOS 9 : glib2-2.68.4-20.el9

critical Nessus Plugin ID 314432

Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates for glib2.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the glib2-2.68.4-20.el9 build changelog.

 - A flaw was found in GLib (Gnome Lib). This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause heap corruption, leading to a denial of service or potential code execution via a buffer-underflow in the GVariant parser when processing maliciously crafted input strings. (CVE-2025-14087)

 - 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 has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the CentOS 9 Stream glib2 package.

See Also

https://kojihub.stream.centos.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=110341

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 314432

File Name: centos9_glib2-2_68_4-20_110341.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/13/2026

Updated: 5/13/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-14087

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glib2-tests, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glib2-doc, cpe:/a:centos:centos:9, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glib2-static, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glib2-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glib2

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/CentOS/release, Host/CentOS/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/8/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/10/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-14087, CVE-2025-14512

IAVA: 2025-A-0907