Input validation error in glade - CVE-2020-36774

Vulnerability identifier: #VU87747

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2020-36774

CWE-ID: CWE-20

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists in plugins/gtk+/glade-gtk-box.c due to an error when handling widget rebuilding for GladeGtkBox. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

glade
Gentoo Linux
openEuler
glade
glade-devel
glade-libs
glade-debuginfo
glade-debugsource
glade-help
dev-util/glade

Install updates from vendor's website.

glade - addressed in versions 3.38.1, 3.40.0
glade - update to 3.36.0-3
glade-devel - update to 3.36.0-3
glade-libs - update to 3.36.0-3
glade-debuginfo - update to 3.36.0-3
glade-debugsource - update to 3.36.0-3
glade-help - update to 3.36.0-3
dev-util/glade - update to 3.38.2

• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glade/-/issues/479
• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glade/-/commit/7acdd3c6f6934f47b8974ebc2190a59ea5d2ed17

• Denial of service in GNOME Glade
• openEuler update for glade
• openEuler 20.03 LTS SP4 update for glade
• Gentoo update for Glade