CVE-2025-14087

Publication date 10 December 2025

Last updated 10 February 2026

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

A flaw was found in GLib (Gnome Lib). This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause heap corruption, leading to a denial of service or potential code execution via a buffer-underflow in the GVariant parser when processing maliciously crafted input strings.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
glib2.0	25.10 questing	Fixed 2.86.0-2ubuntu0.1
	25.04 plucky	Fixed 2.84.1-1ubuntu0.2
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 2.80.0-6ubuntu3.6
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 2.72.4-0ubuntu2.7
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 2.64.6-1~ubuntu20.04.9+esm1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 2.56.4-0ubuntu0.18.04.9+esm5
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2.48.2-0ubuntu4.8+esm5
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 2.40.2-0ubuntu1.1+esm7

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Notes

mdeslaur

should also include the following commit, which is a different issue with no CVE yet: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/commit/4f0399c0aaf3ffc86b5625424580294bc7460404

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
glib2.0	Upstream: 3e72fe0 Upstream: 6fe481c Upstream: dd333a4

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.6 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	Low
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	Low
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L