A flaw was found in GLib, which is vulnerable to an integer overflow in the g_string_insert_unichar() function. When the position at which to insert the character is large, the position will overflow, leading to a buffer underwrite.
CVE-2025-4373
Score 4.8 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2025-05-06. NVD baseline CVSS 4.8; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 4.8
- EG Score
- 4.8(medium)
- EPSS
- 37.5%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
May 6, 2025
Last Modified
July 19, 2026
Advisory Details (9)
Auto-updated Jun 25, 2026Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Update Services for SAP Solutions and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Telecommunications Update Serv
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:14989Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Update Services for SAP So
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:14988Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:12275Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:11374Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:11373Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:11327Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:11140Vendor Advisories for CVE-2025-4373(13)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- CVE-2025-4373Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC)Medium
Glib: buffer underflow on glib through glib/gstring.c via function g_string_insert_unichar
- RHSA-2025:14988Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: glib2 security update
- RHSA-2025:14989Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: glib2 security update
- RHSA-2025:14991Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: glib2 security update
- RHSA-2025:14990Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: glib2 security update
- RHSA-2025:13335Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Insights proxy Container Image
- RHSA-2025:12275Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: glib2 security update
- RHSA-2025:11662Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing platform (Jaeger) 3.5.1 release
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Patch Availability(13)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | libglib2.0-tests (2.80.0-6ubuntu3.4) @ noble | 2026-05-21 | ubuntu |
| redhat | glib2-0:2.56.4-158.el8_6.2 | 2025-09-02 | redhat |
| redhat | glib2-0:2.56.4-162.el8_8 | 2025-09-02 | redhat |
| redhat | glib2-0:2.56.4-10.el8_4.2 | 2025-09-02 | redhat |
| redhat | glib2-0:2.56.4-8.el8_2.2 | 2025-09-02 | redhat |
| redhat | insights-proxy/insights-proxy-container-rhel9:1.5.5-1754504343 | 2025-08-07 | redhat |
| redhat | glib2-0:2.68.4-5.el9_0.2 | 2025-07-30 | redhat |
| redhat | rhosdt/jaeger-rhel8-operator:rhosdt-3.6-1753265314 | 2025-07-23 | redhat |
| redhat | glib2-0:2.68.4-7.el9_2.2 | 2025-07-17 | redhat |
| redhat | glib2-0:2.68.4-14.el9_4.3 | 2025-07-17 | redhat |
| redhat | glib2-0:2.56.4-166.el8_10 | 2025-07-16 | redhat |
| redhat | glib2-0:2.68.4-16.el9_6.2 | 2025-07-15 | redhat |
| redhat | glib2-0:2.80.4-4.el10_0.6 | 2025-07-14 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Additional Vendor Advisories
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