CVE-2025-14512
Publication date 12 December 2025
Last updated 12 December 2025
Ubuntu priority
Description
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.
Status
| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
| glib2.0 | 25.10 questing |
Needs evaluation
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| 25.04 plucky |
Needs evaluation
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| 24.04 LTS noble |
Needs evaluation
|
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| 22.04 LTS jammy |
Needs evaluation
|
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| 20.04 LTS focal |
Needs evaluation
|
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| 18.04 LTS bionic |
Needs evaluation
|
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| 16.04 LTS xenial |
Needs evaluation
|
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| 14.04 LTS trusty |
Needs evaluation
|
Severity score breakdown
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Base score |
6.5 · Medium
|
| Attack vector | Network |
| Attack complexity | Low |
| Privileges required | None |
| User interaction | Required |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | None |
| Integrity impact | None |
| Availability impact | High |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
References
Other references
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-14512
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/3845
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/merge_requests/4935
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/merge_requests/4936
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-14512
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2421339