Medium
Glib: integer overflow in glib gio attribute escaping causes heap buffer overflow
Type: advisorySources: OSV
A flaw was found in glib. This vulnerability allows a heap buffer overflow and denial-of-service (DoS) via an integer overflow in GLib's GIO (GLib Input/Output) escape_byte_string() function when processing malicious file or remote filesystem attribute values.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2025-14512
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 2 Nov 2026, 19:42 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Glib: integer overflow in glib gio attribute escaping causes heap buffer overflow
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 11 Dec 2025, 07:11 UTC
A flaw was found in glib. This vulnerability allows a heap buffer overflow and denial-of-service (DoS) via an integer overflow in GLib's GIO (GLib Input/Output) escape_byte_string() function when processing malicious file or remote filesystem attribute values.
osv:CVE-2025-14512
Complete source record
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