Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1866-1 glib2.0 -- LTS security update

Date Reported:
31 Jul 2019
Affected Packages:
glib2.0
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 931234.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-16428, CVE-2018-16429, CVE-2019-13012.
More information:

Various minor issues have been addressed in the GLib library. GLib is a useful general-purpose C library used by projects such as GTK+, GIMP, and GNOME.

  • CVE-2018-16428

    In GNOME GLib, g_markup_parse_context_end_parse() in gmarkup.c had a NULL pointer dereference.

  • CVE-2018-16429

    GNOME GLib had an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in g_markup_parse_context_parse() in gmarkup.c, related to utf8_str().

  • CVE-2019-13012

    The keyfile settings backend in GNOME GLib (aka glib2.0) before created directories using g_file_make_directory_with_parents (kfsb->dir, NULL, NULL) and files using g_file_replace_contents (kfsb->file, contents, length, NULL, FALSE, G_FILE_CREATE_REPLACE_DESTINATION, NULL, NULL, NULL). Consequently, it did not properly restrict directory (and file) permissions. Instead, for directories, 0777 permissions were used; for files, default file permissions were used. This issue is similar to CVE-2019-12450.

For Debian 8 Jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 2.42.1-1+deb8u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your glib2.0 packages.

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS