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Fedora 43 mingw-glib2 Important Denial of Service Patch CVE-2026-0988

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Calendar Grey January 27, 2026
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The Fedora 43 mingw-glib2 update addresses a critical DoS issue with a backport patch for CVE-2026-0988.
Backport patch for CVE-2026.0988.

Summary

MinGW Windows Glib2 library.

Update Information:

Backport patch for CVE-2026.0988.

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Change Log

* Sat Jan 17 2026 Sandro Mani - 2.86.3-2 - Backport fix for CVE-2026-0988

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2429900 - CVE-2026-0988 mingw-glib2: GLib: Denial of Service via Integer Overflow in g_buffered_input_stream_peek() [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2429900 [ 2 ] Bug #2429919 - CVE-2026-0988 mingw-glib2: GLib: Denial of Service via Integer Overflow in g_buffered_input_stream_peek() [fedora-43] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2429919

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-46fe567fd3' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: mingw-glib2
Product: Fedora 43
Version: 2.86.3
Release: 2.fc43
URL: http://www.gtk.org
Summary: MinGW Windows GLib2 library

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