Medium 6.5Published Dec 11, 2025

CVE-2025-14512Glib: integer overflow in glib gio attribute escaping causes heap buffer overflow

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 27, 2026, 10:10 AM ET)

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Exploited in the last 30 days

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.

CVSS: 6.5 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-190
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: redhat
NVD analysis: Modified
Record last updated: Oct 14, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

GNOME glib gnome:glib (from the name)	before 2.86.3	CNA record
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 redhat:enterprise_linux	from 0:2.80.4-10.el10_1.13 not affected	CNA record
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Extended Update Support redhat:enterprise_linux_eus	from 0:2.80.4-4.el10_0.9 not affected	CNA record
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support redhat:rhel_aus	from 0:2.56.4-10.el8_4.5 not affected	CNA record
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support redhat:rhel_eus_long_life	from 0:2.56.4-10.el8_4.5 not affected	CNA record
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support redhat:rhel_e4s	from 0:2.56.4-158.el8_6.5 not affected	CNA record
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support redhat:rhel_tus	from 0:2.56.4-158.el8_6.5 not affected	CNA record
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support redhat:rhel_eus	from 0:2.68.4-14.el9_4.6 not affected	CNA record
Red Hat Cert Manager support for Red Hat OpenShift release 1.17 redhat:cert_manager	from 1791371080 not affected	CNA record
Red Hat Red Hat AI Inference Server 3.2 redhat:ai_inference_server	from 1780681984 not affected	CNA record
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References

References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:15953	vendor-advisory, x-refsource-redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:15969	vendor-advisory, x-refsource-redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:15971	vendor-advisory, x-refsource-redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19148	vendor-advisory, x-refsource-redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19361	vendor-advisory, x-refsource-redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19452	vendor-advisory, x-refsource-redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19457	vendor-advisory, x-refsource-redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19459	vendor-advisory, x-refsource-redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19460	vendor-advisory, x-refsource-redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19523	vendor-advisory, x-refsource-redhat
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