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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-16429): GLib vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-16429): GLib vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/03/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
10/02/2018
Modified
03/02/2020

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libglib2-0-0
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libglib2-0-bin
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libglib2-0-dev

References

  • USN-3767-1
  • USN-3767-2
  • CVE-2018-16429

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