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Red Hat Security Advisory: glib2 security update

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Medium
Published: Mon May 11 2026 (05/11/2026, 21:52:31 UTC)
Source: GCVE Database
Vendor/Project: Red Hat Product Security
Product: Red Hat

Description

Two security vulnerabilities have been identified in the GLib library used by Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 and related products. The first is a buffer underflow in the GVariant parser that can lead to heap corruption (CVE-2025-14087). The second is an integer overflow in GLib GIO attribute escaping that causes a heap buffer overflow (CVE-2025-14512). These issues have been rated with moderate severity by Red Hat Product Security. An update to the glib2 package addressing these vulnerabilities is available for affected Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 variants and CodeReady Linux Builder. No known exploits are reported in the wild at this time.

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AILast updated: 05/26/2026, 22:37:01 UTC

Technical Analysis

Red Hat Product Security released an advisory for two vulnerabilities in the GLib library, which provides core application building blocks for C libraries and applications, including GNOME components. CVE-2025-14087 is a buffer underflow in the GVariant parser that results in heap corruption. CVE-2025-14512 is an integer overflow in GLib GIO attribute escaping that causes a heap buffer overflow. Both vulnerabilities affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 and related CodeReady Linux Builder products across multiple architectures. The advisory rates these issues as moderate severity and provides updated glib2 packages to remediate the vulnerabilities. No CVSS scores are provided in the advisory, and no known active exploits have been reported.

Potential Impact

Exploitation of these vulnerabilities could lead to heap corruption or heap buffer overflow conditions within applications using GLib, potentially causing application crashes or memory corruption. The advisory does not provide details on exploitation complexity or impact beyond these technical effects. No known exploits in the wild have been reported. The vulnerabilities affect multiple Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 variants and CodeReady Linux Builder across various hardware architectures.

Mitigation Recommendations

Red Hat has released updated glib2 packages that address these vulnerabilities for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 and related products. Users should apply the official security update as described in the Red Hat advisory (RHSA-2026:15969) and the referenced article https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 to remediate these issues. Since this is an official fix, applying the update is the recommended mitigation. No additional vendor-recommended mitigations or workarounds are indicated.

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Technical Details

Gcve Source
db.gcve.eu
Csaf Category
csaf_security_advisory
Csaf Version
2.0
Publisher
Red Hat Product Security
Advisory Id
RHSA-2026:15969
Cve Count
2
Additional Cves
["CVE-2025-14512"]
Cvss Version
null

Threat ID: 6a16097ee29bf47b5064a6a3

Added to database: 5/26/2026, 8:58:38 PM

Last enriched: 5/26/2026, 10:37:01 PM

Last updated: 5/27/2026, 4:56:46 AM

Views: 2

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