High
Security advisory
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().
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-16429
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 08:51 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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().
osv:CVE-2018-16429
Complete source record
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