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SUSE Advisory 2025:4442-1 for glib2: Critical Denial of Service Issue

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Calendar Grey December 18, 2025
Dist Suse Esm H88
Critical security update for glib2 on SUSE addresses multiple vulnerabilities, enhancing system protection.
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".

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-2025:4442-1
Release Date: 2025-12-17T16:17:54Z
Rating: important

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