Medium
Security advisory
A flaw was found in glib, where the gvariant deserialization code is vulnerable to a denial of service introduced by additional input validation added to resolve CVE-2023-29499. The offset table validation may be very slow. This bug does not affect any released version of glib but does affect glib distributors who followed the guidance of glib developers to backport the initial fix for CVE-2023-29499.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2023-32636
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 3 Nov 2026, 13:34 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A flaw was found in glib, where the gvariant deserialization code is vulnerable to a denial of service introduced by additional input validation added to resolve CVE-2023-29499. The offset table validation may be very slow. This bug does not affect any released version of glib but does affect glib distributors who followed the guidance of glib developers to backport the initial fix for CVE-2023-29499.
osv:CVE-2023-32636
Complete source record
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