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Debian: CVE-2018-16429: glib2.0 -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2018-16429: glib2.0 -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/04/2018
Created
08/02/2019
Added
08/02/2019
Modified
02/18/2020

Description

GNOME GLib 2.56.1 has an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in g_markup_parse_context_parse() in gmarkup.c, related to utf8_str().

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-glib2-0

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