CVE-2018-16429

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    CVE-2018-16429

    Published: 4 Sept 2018Last Modified: 7 Aug 2026

    Summary:

    Details: GNOME GLib 2.56.1 has an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in g_markup_parse_context_parse() in gmarkup.c, related to utf8_str().

    References: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E, https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/07/msg00029.html, https://usn.ubuntu.com/3767-1/, https://usn.ubuntu.com/3767-2/, https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/commit/cec71705406f0b2790422f0c1aa0ff3b4b464b1b, https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/issues/1361

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- d0364b443805dcb832c200fcf8bf58a64fdf3e7d
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    2.56.1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    Network
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    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Integrity
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