Gdbusserver: glib2: gdbusserver pre-authentication dos via unbounded sasl line buffering
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 5.3epss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 91% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
A denial-of-service and resource exhaustion vulnerability exists within the `GDBus` component of GLib. The `gdbusauth` authentication mechanism fails to enforce proper length limitations on data lines read from a client. An unauthenticated local or remote attacker can exploit this lack of input validation by sending excessively long streams of data, causing the application to consume massive amounts of system memory and CPU, potentially leading to a crash or system hang.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Affected products
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Red Hat · Red Hat Hardened ImagesRed Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4References
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:39985https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:40485https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:42329https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-15588https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2499675https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/3985