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.

An update of the glib package has been released.

This plugin has been deprecated as it does not adhere to established standards for this style of check.

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2024-2528 advisory.

    - Fix CVEs: CVE-2023-32636, CVE-2023-29499, CVE-2023-32611, CVE-2023-32665, DoS

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

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

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:2528 advisory.

    GLib provides the core application building blocks for libraries and applications written in C. It     provides the core object system used in GNOME, the main loop implementation, and a large set of utility     functions for strings and common data structures.

    Security Fix(es):

    * glib: GVariant offset table entry size is not checked in is_normal() (CVE-2023-29499)

    * glib: g_variant_byteswap() can take a long time with some non-normal inputs (CVE-2023-32611)

    * glib: Timeout in fuzz_variant_text (CVE-2023-32636)

    * glib: GVariant deserialisation does not match spec for non-normal data (CVE-2023-32665)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    Additional Changes:

    For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Release Notes     linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

According to the versions of the glib2 package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - Rejected reason: Rejected by upstream. (CVE-2023-24593, CVE-2023-25180)

  - A flaw was found in GLib. GVariant deserialization fails to validate that the input conforms to the     expected format, leading to denial of service. (CVE-2023-29499)

  - A flaw was found in GLib. GVariant deserialization is vulnerable to a slowdown issue where a crafted     GVariant can cause excessive processing, leading to denial of service. (CVE-2023-32611)

  - A flaw was found in glib, where the gvariant deserialization code is vulnerable to a denial of service     introduced by additional input validation added to resolve CVE-2023-29499. The offset table validation may     be very slow. This bug does not affect any released version of glib but does affect glib distributors who     followed the guidance of glib developers to backport the initial fix for CVE-2023-29499. (CVE-2023-32636)

  - A flaw was found in GLib. The GVariant deserialization code is vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow     introduced by the fix for CVE-2023-32665. This bug does not affect any released version of GLib, but does     affect GLib distributors who followed the guidance of GLib developers to backport the initial fix for     CVE-2023-32665. (CVE-2023-32643)

  - 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. (CVE-2023-32665)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202311-18 (GLib: Multiple Vulnerabilities)

  - A flaw was found in GLib. GVariant deserialization fails to validate that the input conforms to the     expected format, leading to denial of service. (CVE-2023-29499)

  - A flaw was found in GLib. GVariant deserialization is vulnerable to a slowdown issue where a crafted     GVariant can cause excessive processing, leading to denial of service. (CVE-2023-32611)

  - 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. (CVE-2023-32665)

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

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2023-6631 advisory.

    - Resolve s390x crashes introduced by fixes for CVE-2023-24593/CVE-2023-25180
    - Resolve use after free introduced by fixes for CVE-2023-24593/CVE-2023-25180
    - Fix CVE-2023-24593 and CVE-2023-25180

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

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

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:6631 advisory.

    GLib provides the core application building blocks for libraries and applications written in C. It     provides the core object system used in GNOME, the main loop implementation, and a large set of utility     functions for strings and common data structures.

    Security Fix(es):

    * glib: GVariant offset table entry size is not checked in is_normal() (CVE-2023-29499)

    * glib: g_variant_byteswap() can take a long time with some non-normal inputs (CVE-2023-32611)

    * glib: GVariant deserialisation does not match spec for non-normal data (CVE-2023-32665)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    Additional Changes:

    For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.3 Release Notes     linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6165-2 advisory.

    USN-6165-1 fixed vulnerabilities in GLib. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 14.04     LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.



Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

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

The remote Debian 10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dla-3583 advisory.

  - A flaw was found in GLib. GVariant deserialization fails to validate that the input conforms to the     expected format, leading to denial of service. (CVE-2023-29499)

  - A flaw was found in GLib. GVariant deserialization is vulnerable to a slowdown issue where a crafted     GVariant can cause excessive processing, leading to denial of service. (CVE-2023-32611)

  - 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. (CVE-2023-32665)

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

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3535-1 advisory.

  - An issue was discovered in GNOME GLib before 2.66.8. When g_file_replace() is used with     G_FILE_CREATE_REPLACE_DESTINATION to replace a path that is a dangling symlink, it incorrectly also     creates the target of the symlink as an empty file, which could conceivably have security relevance if the     symlink is attacker-controlled. (If the path is a symlink to a file that already exists, then the contents     of that file correctly remain unchanged.) (CVE-2021-28153)

  - The upstream bug report describes this issue as follows: (CVE-2023-29499, CVE-2023-32611, CVE-2023-32665)

  - Timeout in fuzz_variant_text [fedora-38] (CVE-2023-32636)

  - Heap-buffer-overflow in g_variant_serialised_get_child [fedora-all] (CVE-2023-32643)

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

According to the versions of the glib2 package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - Rejected reason: Rejected by upstream. (CVE-2023-24593, CVE-2023-25180)

  - A flaw was found in GLib. GVariant deserialization fails to validate that the input conforms to the     expected format, leading to denial of service. (CVE-2023-29499)

  - A flaw was found in GLib. GVariant deserialization is vulnerable to a slowdown issue where a crafted     GVariant can cause excessive processing, leading to denial of service. (CVE-2023-32611)

  - A flaw was found in glib, where the gvariant deserialization code is vulnerable to a denial of service     introduced by additional input validation added to resolve CVE-2023-29499. The offset table validation may     be very slow. This bug does not affect any released version of glib but does affect glib distributors who     followed the guidance of glib developers to backport the initial fix for CVE-2023-29499. (CVE-2023-32636)

  - A flaw was found in GLib. The GVariant deserialization code is vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow     introduced by the fix for CVE-2023-32665. This bug does not affect any released version of GLib, but does     affect GLib distributors who followed the guidance of GLib developers to backport the initial fix for     CVE-2023-32665. (CVE-2023-32643)

  - 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. (CVE-2023-32665)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-225 advisory.

    The upstream bug report describes this issue as follows:

    A vulnerability was found in GLib2.0, where DoS caused by handling a malicious text-form variant which is     structured to cause looping superlinear to its text size. Applications are at risk if they parse untrusted     text-form variants. (CVE-2023-24593)

    The upstream bug report describes this issue as follows:

    A vulnerability was found in GLib2.0, where DoS caused by handling a malicious text-form variant which is     structured to cause looping superlinear to its text size. Applications are at risk if they parse untrusted     text-form variants. (CVE-2023-25180)

    GLib's GVariant deserialization prior to GLib 2.74.4 failed to validate the input conforms to the expected     format, leading to denial of service. (CVE-2023-29499)

    GLib's GVariant deserialization prior to GLib 2.74.4 is vulnerable to a slowdown issue where a crafted     GVariant can cause excessive processing, leading to denial of service. (CVE-2023-32611)

    GLib's GVariant deserialization prior to GLib 2.74.4 is vulnerable to an exponential blowup issue where a     crafted GVariant can cause excessive processing, leading to denial of service. (CVE-2023-32665)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

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

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-9e5a29a25d advisory.

    Update to glib2-2.74.7.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

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

The remote Fedora 37 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-1a7e2b3dda advisory.

    Update to glib2-2.74.7.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

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

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6165-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that GLib incorrectly handled non-normal GVariants. An attacker could use this issue to     cause GLib to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or perform other unknown attacks.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
204417	Photon OS 4.0: Glib PHSA-2023-4.0-0500	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
203917	Photon OS 3.0: Glib PHSA-2023-3.0-0692	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
196714	RHEL 7 : glib (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
195064	Oracle Linux 9 : mingw-glib2 (ELSA-2024-2528)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	high
194811	RHEL 9 : mingw-glib2 (RHSA-2024:2528)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
188700	EulerOS Virtualization 2.9.0 : glib2 (EulerOS-SA-2023-2982)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
188697	EulerOS Virtualization 2.9.1 : glib2 (EulerOS-SA-2023-2956)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
186302	GLSA-202311-18 : GLib: Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	high
185828	Oracle Linux 9 : glib2 (ELSA-2023-6631)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	high
185138	RHEL 9 : glib2 (RHSA-2023:6631)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
183410	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM : GLib vulnerabilities (USN-6165-2)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
181858	Debian DLA-3583-1 : glib2.0 - LTS security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
180539	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : glib2 (SUSE-SU-2023:3535-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
179551	EulerOS 2.0 SP9 : glib2 (EulerOS-SA-2023-2582)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
179528	EulerOS 2.0 SP9 : glib2 (EulerOS-SA-2023-2612)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
177688	Amazon Linux 2023 : glib2, glib2-devel, glib2-static (ALAS2023-2023-225)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
177366	Fedora 38 : mingw-glib2 (2023-9e5a29a25d)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
177359	Fedora 37 : mingw-glib2 (2023-1a7e2b3dda)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
177323	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : GLib vulnerabilities (USN-6165-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high

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