UBUNTU-CVE-2018-16429

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-16429

    Published: 3 Sept 2018Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-16429

    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://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-16429, https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/issues/1361, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3767-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3767-2, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-16429

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: glib2.0

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.40.2-0ubuntu1.1

    Affected versions

    2.38.0-1ubuntu1
    2.38.1-1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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