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CVE-2023-32636

CVE Details

Visit the official vulnerability details page for CVE-2023-32636 to learn more.

Initial Publication

10/25/2024

Last Update

12/16/2024

Third Party Dependency

glib2

NIST CVE Summary

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.

CVE Severity

7.5

Our Official Summary

This vulnerability enables a denial of service attack to be performed against applications that process untrusted GVariant input, compromising application availability by consuming excessive processing time or utilizing a large quantity of memory. Because the most widely available attack vector is local and the consequences are limited to denial of service.

The images where this vulnrability is have controls in place are not accessible outside the cluster. So the attacker needs to gain privileged access to the cluster to attempt this exploit. Also the containers do not allow execution of arbitrary code. Impact of this exploit is also low, since container reduces the attack surface.

Status

Ongoing

Affected Products & Versions

VersionPalette EnterprisePalette Enterprise AirgapVerteXVerteX Airgap
4.5.15⚠️ Impacted✅ No Impact⚠️ Impacted✅ No Impact
4.5.11⚠️ Impacted✅ No Impact⚠️ Impacted✅ No Impact
4.5.10⚠️ Impacted✅ No Impact⚠️ Impacted✅ No Impact
4.5.8⚠️ Impacted✅ No Impact⚠️ Impacted✅ No Impact
4.5.5⚠️ Impacted✅ No Impact⚠️ Impacted✅ No Impact
4.5.4⚠️ Impacted✅ No Impact⚠️ Impacted✅ No Impact
4.4.20⚠️ Impacted✅ No Impact⚠️ Impacted✅ No Impact

Revision History

DateRevision
12/16/2024Impacted versions changed from 4.5.4, 4.5.5, 4.5.8, 4.4.20, 4.5.10, 4.5.11 to 4.5.4, 4.5.5, 4.5.8, 4.4.20, 4.5.10, 4.5.11, 4.5.15
12/09/2024Official summary revised: This vulnerability enables a denial of service attack to be performed against applications that process untrusted GVariant input, compromising application availability by consuming excessive processing time or utilizing a large quantity of memory. Because the most widely available attack vector is local and the consequences are limited to denial of service.The images where this vulnrability is have controls in place are not accessible outside the cluster. So the attacker needs to gain privileged access to the cluster to attempt this exploit. Also the containers do not allow execution of arbitrary code. Impact of this exploit is also low, since container reduces the attack surface.
11/15/2024Impacted versions changed from 4.5.4, 4.5.5, 4.5.8, 4.4.20, 4.5.10 to 4.5.4, 4.5.5, 4.5.8, 4.4.20, 4.5.10, 4.5.11
11/15/2024Impacted versions changed from 4.5.4, 4.5.5, 4.5.8, 4.4.20 to 4.5.4, 4.5.5, 4.5.8, 4.4.20, 4.5.10
11/14/2024Impacted versions changed from 4.5.4, 4.5.5, 4.5.8 to 4.5.4, 4.5.5, 4.5.8, 4.4.20
11/10/2024Impacted versions changed from 4.5.4, 4.5.5 to 4.5.4, 4.5.5, 4.5.8
10/27/2024Impacted versions changed from 4.5.4 to 4.5.4, 4.5.5