CVE-2025-14512

Glib: integer overflow in glib gio attribute escaping causes heap buffer overflow

MEDIUM 6.5

At a glance

Source: NVD
EPSS: EPSS 0.58 % · percentile 48 (2026-10-28)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2025-12-11 07:11 UTC
Updated: 2026-10-14 19:23 UTC
Assigner: redhat
NVD status: Modified

Description

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.

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-190 — Integer Overflow or Wraparound

References

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 6.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	redhat
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 6.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	NVD · secalert@redhat.com (Secondary)

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2025-202664
GCVE · GCVE-0-2025-14512

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2026-AVI-1385 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMware · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2026-AVI-0788 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2026-AVI-0281 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits Splunk · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2026-AVI-0266 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans VMware Tanzu · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2026-AVI-0218 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMware · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2026-AVI-0209 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMware · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2026-AVI-0112 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMware · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:gnome:glib:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* < 2.86.3
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:-:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Affected products

Product	Versions
GNOME · glib	affected 0 < 2.86.3
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10	unaffected 0:2.80.4-10.el10_1.13 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10	unaffected 0:2.80.4-12.el10_2.13 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Extended Update Support	unaffected 0:2.80.4-4.el10_0.9 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	unaffected 0:2.56.4-169.el8_10 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support	unaffected 0:2.56.4-10.el8_4.5 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-On	unaffected 0:2.56.4-10.el8_4.5 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support	unaffected 0:2.56.4-158.el8_6.5 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Telecommunications Update Service	unaffected 0:2.56.4-158.el8_6.5 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Update Services for SAP Solutions	unaffected 0:2.56.4-158.el8_6.5 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Telecommunications Update Service	unaffected 0:2.56.4-165.el8_8 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Update Services for SAP Solutions	unaffected 0:2.56.4-165.el8_8 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	unaffected 0:2.68.4-18.el9_7.2 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	unaffected 0:2.68.4-19.el9_8.1 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	unaffected 0:2.68.4-18.el9_7.2 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	unaffected 0:2.68.4-19.el9_8.1 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions	unaffected 0:2.68.4-5.el9_0.5 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions	unaffected 0:2.68.4-7.el9_2.5 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support	unaffected 0:2.68.4-14.el9_4.6 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6 Extended Update Support	unaffected 0:2.68.4-16.el9_6.5 < *

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD