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SUSE: glib2 Important Denial of Service Vulnerability Advisory 2025:4441-1

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Calendar Grey December 18, 2025
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SUSE releases an important glib2 security update addressing critical buffer overflows and denial of service threats.
An update that solves three vulnerabilities can now be installed.

Summary

## This update for glib2 fixes the following issues: * CVE-2025-14512: integer overflow in the GIO `escape_byte_string()` function when processing malicious files or remote filesystem attribute values can lead to denial-of-service (bsc#1254878). * CVE-2025-14087: buffer underflow in the GVariant parser `bytestring_parse()` and `string_parse()` functions when processing attacker-influenced data may lead to crash or code execution (bsc#1254662). * CVE-2025-13601: heap-based buffer overflow in the `g_escape_uri_string()` function when processing strings with a large number of unacceptable characters may lead to crash or code execution (bsc#1254297). ## Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

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References

* bsc#1254297

* bsc#1254662

* bsc#1254878

Cross-

* CVE-2025-13601

* CVE-2025-14087

* CVE-2025-14512

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2025-13601 ( SUSE ): 7.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

* CVE-2025-13601 ( NVD ): 7.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

* CVE-2025-14087 ( SUSE ): 6.9

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

* CVE-2025-14087 ( SUSE ): 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

* CVE-2025-14087 ( NVD ): 5.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

* CVE-2025-14512 ( SUSE ): 6.9

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

* CVE-2025-14512 ( SUSE ): 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

* CVE-2025-14512 ( NVD ): 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:4441-1
Release Date: 2025-12-17T16:15:24Z
Rating: important

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